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I-function Story

Maybe we are just like the frog, we really have no choice of our innate variability and the  I function is just making up stories so that we can feel like we are in control.  Granted I do not know why it would be particularly useful for us to feel like we are in control of our selves and our processes.  In comparison to the frog I understand that the frog does jump to the same place more than once, but we as humans will do the same thing over and over again (even when it work) that’s why behavior modification works.  But perhaps, this trying similar moves over and over again is our nervous system trying to get things less wrong.  In stead of being like a frog who never tries anything over again our nervous system does because we are more evolved.  However, this really doesn’t mean that we have any control of this, our I-function is just making up a story to go along with our innate variability, that story is free will.

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