Like:

Bad thing happened = The universe made it happen, not your fault

Forgetting to do something = Well there’s nothing I can do, my brain chemicals are dictated by the laws of physics

Like if I don’t keep using Determism as an explantion, my brain just 🤯💀…

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    Not sure why you’re being downvoted for this, especially when you state it as your belief.

    I do think it’s likely accurate, too. If you look at brain scans, we can see that decisions are made before we’re consciously aware of them. Also split brain patients will attribute intent to actions of their completely separate hemisphere.

    I don’t think this is a healthy mindset, though. Personally I think this way as a coping mechanism more than anything else, even if I do genuinely believe it’s likely how the universe works.

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      we can see that decisions are made before we’re consciously aware of them.

      Our subconscious is to a large degree trained by our consciousness.
      A simple thing like walking takes huge conscious effort to learn. When it’s learned, the task becomes sub conscious.
      So the decision making is not a one way event happening only in that moment, it’s based on our experiences, and how we have trained our subconscious to process things.
      I haven’t studied that research, but I am VERY skeptical about it showing what is often claimed. The conscious/subconscious interaction is a 2 way connection, not just 1 way.