So today I would like to explain to you that if you don't believe in free will, consciousness has no evolutionary purpose. Unless, it is a forceful push in one direction only. If the purpose were a more stronger, forceful reaction to stimuli than with an unconscious being, then that's your theory. Even so, the force of a reaction still implies some sort of influence that is up to you, the observer. Thus meaning we do have free will.
So if we do not have free will, all your conscious essence does is observe. It reaches conclusions and acts, but the same actions could obviously be reached by an unconscious being who has the same nature and the same nurture, or in other words, the same psychology based on past events, and the same genetics.
Genetics plays a role in experience. Past experience (including environment, which is an experience) dictate behavior. What does the soul (or consciousness) do? Well, nothing. If you don't believe in free will, you believe every decision anyone makes is predetermined beforehand. Consciousness appears to make decisions, but they are all based on factors in psychology. Nature and nurture. What does the conscious mind do? The conscious mind just traces its fingers over the process without influencing decision making.
So, we are the Mighty Tracers.
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