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Losing your will means losing an important characteristic of being human. The ability to act upon your will, to have preferences… Whatever takes over the will usually utilizes the reward-punishment system. The connection is very clear between a poor animal that due to an electrode connected to its brain rewards itself to death, and a person who runs after “rating”, a gambler who runs after money or an imaginary reward, or someone addicted to the internet or to something else. As an Eastern friend once said: Maybe it is more correct if instead of “I think, therefore I am!” we said “I have a will, therefore I am!” In fact, could we go one step further and say that to free oneself of any kind of addiction is existence itself?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Losing your will means losing an important characteristic of being human. The ability to act upon your will, to have preferences… Whatever takes over the will usually utilizes the reward-punishment system. The connection is very clear between a poor animal that due to an electrode connected to its brain rewards itself to death, and a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1216],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-890","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aphorisms"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nTo give up one's will \/ dependency<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Losing your will means losing an important characteristic of being human. The ability to act upon your will, to have preferences... 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