We Are Aware and We Choose
You may speculate all you want about how we material beings manage to be conscious and how we manage act willfully, that is, with purpose, but what you cannot rationally do is ask if we are conscious and if act willfully. We each know this directly, so the fact needs no investigation, which would affirm that which was to be investigated. Even to ask a question about those things is to demonstrate their reality. You cannot even talk about the subject without your words presupposing and depending on them. I'll give you an example. The other day I heard a YouTube celebrity skeptical atheist say, "I generally prefer to say now that we have will. Whether or not it's free or how free it is, I have no idea. So I don't need to come up with an explanation for something that hasn't been demonstrated to actually be real." Look closely at this free-will-denier's words: prefer , idea , come up with , demonstrated . What in the world can those words mean in the a