Am I simply the sum total of all my experiences and my biological makeup?

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Yes, there is no free will

No, we make our own fate

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Is each choice a make just a reactionary response to the sum of my chemical and biological makeup and every environmental experience I have endured since I remember?

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QuixoticSoul · 41-45, M

I suspect that the day to day conscious experience of free will is mostly an illusion, and much of it made up after the fact. But over a longer period we have real conscious impact on how our cognition works, as we shape our mental landscape slowly, day by day. Life is made up of habits, small and large, physical and mental - and it is those habits that we have the greatest ability to shape consciously.