Fundamentally, this is an inherent perception bias; A person wearing red-colored glasses all their lives will never know the sky is "blue".
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Furthermore, the "blue" they know is the only "blue" there is. There is nothing in their unconscious substrata resembling your "blue".
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The intelligent are simply more cognizant of their unconscious processes. This does not mean they have power or influence over them.
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The idea of owning yourself, of having free will, is the fundamental assumption which is absolutely not justified by anything we know.
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If you were not afraid to consider the possibility that choices are by and large made for you...
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...and that by necessity they must very cleverly seem to you as if they are made by you, then you might begin to actually consider the mind.
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