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Changing a reality can be a conscious choice, selected at will by the person, or it can be an unconscious choice based on an intended desire. It can also be an unconscious act of programming by something as simple as a friend telling you about something or a television commercial brainwashing you to buy a particular product.
[...] the intent and choice are simply conscious or unconscious. [...]
Existential choice is by definition irreversible and irrevocable. You cannot choose your destiny in a reversible way, for a reversible choice is not a choice of destiny, by definition not an existential choice.
You can't be totally aware if you are choosing. [...] you can't be aware totally if you are condemning, if you are justifying, or if you say, 'I will keep my beliefs, my experiences, my knowledge.' Then you are only partially aware, and partial awareness is really blindness.Quoted in: Krishnamurti, Jiddu (1992). "The Nature of Choiceless Awareness". In Patterson, Albion W. (ed.). Choiceless Awareness: A Selection of Passages for the Study of the Teachings of J. Krishnamurti (Revised ed.). Ojai, California: Krishnamurti Foundation of America (published 2000). pp. 16–17. ISBN 9781888004045. Retrieved 13 August 2020.
What if the real problem is the imperative of making all those choices in all those different realms, from sex to software, in the first place? This is the view of a small number of philosophers, legal theorists and culturally aware psychologists, including Barry Schwartz and, more recently, Sheena Iyengar, Sigal Ben-Porath, Kent Greenfield and Renata Salecl. They insist that we have become overwhelmed and even 'tyrannized' by our culture's overinvestment in choice.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)What if the real problem is the imperative of making all those choices in all those different realms, from sex to software, in the first place? This is the view of a small number of philosophers, legal theorists and culturally aware psychologists, including Barry Schwartz and, more recently, Sheena Iyengar, Sigal Ben-Porath, Kent Greenfield and Renata Salecl. They insist that we have become overwhelmed and even 'tyrannized' by our culture's overinvestment in choice.