Originally Posted by
InCognito
It's a combination of both, we are tied to our psyche but how tied down we are is honestly up to each individual. For me, it does exist because I don't believe in fate, I think we decide our own fates. I've always tried to live unfettered but I still know that my actions are still bounded to some sense of reality. All the actions I make, stem from all my past experiences and memories. So yes, while I'm acting of my free will, I'm still tied down to my mind. Everybody makes choices, but some fall imprisoned by their own paradigms of thinking so their choice seems like obedience or non free willed but it's still a decision, a choice. So I don't believe it's absolute or one or the other. I'd say everything has an opposite, always two sides to the same coin.