Free Won't

What if each entangled ensemble of sub-selves have varied experiences between break-point events? A way out of the confusion caused by a slip? Self-deception offers the best hope for a contiguous and uninterrupted narrative flow. Your office is in a different location after the slip? You now remember discussing the relocation and approving the new location. Combining Triver's self-deception as an evolutionary good trick with Kahnemann's S1 and S2 (fast, slow) mental construction it seems plausible that we simply rearrange the deck chairs on the Titanic of mental life.

Dr. Legba will see you now

The fly in the ointment is ingrained S1 habits which may be different before and after the slip. For these difficult transitions, S2 fires up the pre-frontal cortex to edits response like Brietbart/O'Keefe. Oceana has always been at war with Eastasia. Now, the will of the ensemble of dispositions gets over-written not by independent volition or free will but by a resistance to results from hard to fathom S1 habit. We exercise free won't and pass by the desert cart and the open bar. The plural 'I am' is now (post-slip) joined by a second voting coalition in rising pandemonium. The pre-frontal machinery engages, deceives and lands on an open square on the chess board. A smooth narrative wallpapers over our confusion and we press onward through the fog.