conditioning

conditioning is the context that makes a particular event happen.

The conditioning context has an infinite and continuous nature. To overcome the need for addressing, we use causal factors to refer to discrete events to reason about them.

Any event and therefore any object in existence is exclusively defined by its conditioning. The chain of causality starts at the origins of the universe.

example: A particular apple falls from a tree at a particular moment exclusively because there was a particular context, a set of causal factor: The tree has grown in that place (because a seed had germinated there), produced an apple (because it had specific genes), the apple was heavy enough (earth has a large gravitational field), the stem was weak enough and the wind blew strong enough...

Due to its nature, a particular conditioning is incomprehensiveble to humans, which prevents a full understanding with reasoning or language.

The inability of humans to have a comprehensive understanding of a particular conditioning combined with the need for addressing and the need for understanding often leads to the fallacy of reduction of causality.

conditioning applies to all human behavior, reasoning and decision-making which implies the non-existence of free will or willpower.

In general humans recognize conditioning, but just partially. It is common to attribute part of an outcome to willpower causing a lot of unnecessary suffering in the form of guilt and blame.

The belief in free will or willpower, as opposed to conditioning, is due to the interplay of the causal factors of our decisions being recognizable but not definable patterns and our meaning making behaviors needing to point to a particular causal factor to meet the certainty need.

motivational power and conditioning as a framework are ways to embrace conditioning while recognizing the non-existence of free will and willpower.