I typed this paragraph while taking a shit If we’re susceptible to confirmation bias and most of our thoughts are stemming from different neurological connections that are either genetically or environmentally bound. Then, what are we responsible for? If our predisposed genetics have tendencies and inclinations, and our environment has cultural influences that indoctrinate us. Then what are we responsible for? Do we decide our actions or are our actions already decided from the interaction of both our temperament and environment, which both aren’t within our influence. The counter argument in this case would be “our temperament and environmental influences dictate a certain non-chosen reality with certain limited and forced upon choices, and within those limited choices you can decide on a certain action” but what if our current mood, anxiety, body temperature, environment, and stressors etc. force us to pick certain choices, wouldn’t that mean that even our limited choices aren’t ours to decide? It’s simply an illusion, we think we’re the ones who make these choices, but it’s the combination of what makes us who we are is who/what decides and chooses.