Driven: How Human Nature Shapes Our Choices (J-B Warren Bennis Series) by Paul R. Lawrence;Nitin Nohria

Author:Paul R. Lawrence;Nitin Nohria
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Published: 2008-09-15T05:22:00+00:00

On the other hand, when the inevitable conflict between mental drives occurs, the opposing signals are forced into awareness where they are subject to conscious consideration and resolution. Such conflicts can be troubling and painful. For example, think of the feelings one has when a loved one develops a strong religious belief that conflicts with one's own. To be clear, these conflicts are entirely internal, between two parts of one mind. These conflicts pose choices that are impossible to avoid without resorting to the abnormal psychological mechanisms such as repression. So our genes, by establishing the independence of the four drives, have guaranteed that humans have to make decisions that involve difficult trade-offs, difficult moral choices that other animals do not face. Since these are conscious choices (what is often called free will ), and since our large memory and information processing capacity forces us to review the past and anticipate the future consequences of our choices, we cannot avoid seeing ourselves as causal agents. Our minds are designed to force us to feel responsible for all the consequences flowing from our decisions. This is what is called the human conscience. This is the highest level of consciousness that Damasio describes in his recent comprehensive book of the biological basis of humans' multiple levels of consciousness.8

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