Alva Noë unpacks them:
[W]e are not free if freedom means an immunity to the ways in which we are sculpted by habit as well as by the world around us. If freedom means the ability to change course as a result of wanting to change course, or weighing up options, then we are not free. But maybe there is a different way of thinking about our freedom … [W]e are surfers riding the wave. Although the wave conditions and controls our every move, with skill, with training, we learn to carve our own path along the water's surface.
If you want to lose weight, learn how to surf. That means learning to be responsive to the ways in which we are controlled by our past selves as well by the world around us.
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