Despite the horror, we survivors were endowed with a will to survive. Or instinct. Or maybe it was faith.

The neurological condition of echopraxia is to autonomy as blindsight is to consciousness.

You realize that there is no free will in what we create with AI. Everything functions within rules andparameters

You__e got to stop thinking of consciousness as your own. You__e only thinking for yourself when you are by yourself. As soon as you are in the presence of others, your consciousness is linked at some level to those others.

A conscious being without free will is simply a metaphysical absurdity.

In absence of consciousness, human beings would merely be animated material objects. Without the synergistic impact of consciousness, free will, and perception of a cohesive self, which act to direct human conduct, many of the qualities that we associate with our humanness would be moot or superfluous delusions including laughter and pain, memories and thoughts, love and anger, imagination and dreams. Without consciousness and free will, humankind would lack the ability to choose right from wrong and there could be no mental discipline directing each person__ lifestyle, attitudes, and belief systems.