Free Human Choice
A Free Human Choice is a free choice that is a person's choice.
- AKA: Unforced Personal Decision.
- Context:
- It can (typically) involve Conscious Deliberation through option consideration.
- It can (typically) express Personal Agency through autonomous decision.
- It can (typically) reflect Individual Values through preference expression.
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- It can (often) require Mental Resources for choice evaluation.
- It can (often) involve Risk Assessment through outcome consideration.
- It can (often) carry Moral Weight through ethical implications.
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- It can range from being an Intentional Choice to being an Inauthentic Choice, depending on its choice authenticity.
- It can range from being a Wise Human Choice to being an Unwise Human Choice, depending on its decision quality.
- It can range from being a Fully-Conscious Free Human Choice to being a Partially-Conscious Free Human Choice, depending on its awareness level.
- It can range from being a Short-Term Free Human Choice to being a Long-Term Free Human Choice, depending on its temporal impact.
- It can range from being a Low-Risk Free Human Choice to being a High-Risk Free Human Choice, depending on its risk level.
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- Examples:
- Basic Life Choices (to meet fundamental needs), such as:
- Sustenance Choices (to maintain physical well-being), such as:
- Food Choice like deciding what to eat.
- Rest Choice like deciding when to sleep.
- Sustenance Choices (to maintain physical well-being), such as:
- Life Direction Choices (to shape personal path), such as:
- Career Path Choices (to direct professional life), such as:
- Work Choice like deciding whether to take a job.
- Education Choice like deciding whether to pursue study.
- Career Path Choices (to direct professional life), such as:
- Leisure Choices (to use free time), such as:
- Recreation Choices (to engage in enjoyable activity), such as:
- Hobby Choice like deciding whether to maintain a garden.
- Entertainment Choice like deciding whether to watch media content.
- Recreation Choices (to engage in enjoyable activity), such as:
- Moral Choices (to address ethical situations), such as:
- Ethical Decisions (to handle moral dilemmas), such as:
- Altruistic Choice like deciding whether to donate an organ.
- Integrity Choice like deciding whether to take others' property.
- Ethical Decisions (to handle moral dilemmas), such as:
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- Basic Life Choices (to meet fundamental needs), such as:
- Counter-Examples:
- Forced Human Choice, which lacks free will.
- Unconscious Human Decision, which lacks conscious awareness.
- Unforced Conscious AI Choice, which lacks human agency.
- See: Chosen Act, Courage, Free Will, Altruistic Act, Existentialism, Personal Agency, Decision Making, Moral Choice, Human Autonomy.
References
2008
- (Sooniong et al., 2008) ⇒ Chun S. Sooniong, Marcel Brass, Hans-Jochen Heinze, and John-Dylan Haynes. (2008). “Unconscious Determinants of Free Decisions in the Human Brain." Nature neuroscience 11, no. 5
- (Baumeister, 2008) ⇒ Roy F. Baumeister . (2008). “Free Will in Scientific Psychology." Perspectives on psychological science 3, no. 1
1997
- (Baumeister & Sommer, 1997) ⇒ Roy F. Baumeister, and Kristin L. Sommer. (1997). “Consciousness, Free Choice, and Automaticity.” In: The automaticity of everyday life: Advances in social cognition 10
- QUOTE: The increased understanding of automatic processes fundamentally influenced and altered social psychology's view of human nature since 1985. In John Rargh's target chapter, he shows why he is a leader in illuminating these processes. His elegant reasoning and innovative experiments shed considerable light on how motivational and cognitive processes alter people's behavior with often little or no conscious awareness tint they are being affected.
… suggest that the understanding of automatic processes may eventually take over psychology to the extent that conscious processes and deliberative choice become outdated, superfluous concepts. In his words, "it may well be that there ultimately is no future for conscious processing in accounts of the mind, in the sense of free will and choice” (chap. 1, p. 52). In our view, such a conclusion requires a drastic leap of faith that goes far beyond what the data warrant. Beyond that, we want to propose a different understanding of the role of conscious processes in human behavior. Bargh may have trouble finding evidence of the effects of consciousness because he is looking in the wrong place.
Specifically, we propose that the role of consciousness is to override automatic, habitual, or standard responses on the infrequent occasions when such intervention is needed. Consciousness thus undermines the lawful, predictable nature of human behavior and produces a situation of relative indeterminacy. Such an approach allows us to treat Bargh's contributions as vital keys for achieving a new, expanding view of human nature and mental functioning-but nonetheless a slightly different view than the one he suggests in his chapter.
- QUOTE: The increased understanding of automatic processes fundamentally influenced and altered social psychology's view of human nature since 1985. In John Rargh's target chapter, he shows why he is a leader in illuminating these processes. His elegant reasoning and innovative experiments shed considerable light on how motivational and cognitive processes alter people's behavior with often little or no conscious awareness tint they are being affected.
1972
- (Weiner, 1972) ⇒ Bernard Weiner. (1972). “Theories of Motivation: From Mechanism to Cognition." xx xx
1955
- (Simon, 1955) ⇒ Herbert A. Simon. (1955). “A Behavioral Model of Rational Choice." The quarterly journal of economics