Originally Posted by BackToSquareOne
Just different perceptions of the same reality.
Or is there just one reality? Does one's perception actually make it reality? If we are all observing the same thing differently...who is to ever say what is real?
As far as our choices already being predetermined (ie the button pushing experiment), I don't completely discount that. In my life I continue to choose similar partners. My therapist says...put 100 people in a room, and I will pick the most dysfunctional out with any information about them and very little interaction whatsoever. I will be drawn. Is this written into my programming? Can I choose differently? Does being "aware" of this have any impact? I would certainly like to think so, otherwise it's easy to adopt a victim mentality..."boo-f*cking-hoo... poor me... my picker is broken" all the while continuing to make choices that will cause me suffering.