"The psychological illusion of freedom: considering only effects whose causes it is essentially ignorant of, consciousness can believe itself free, attributing to the mind an imaginary power over the body, although it does not even know what a body can do in terms of the causes that actually move it to act (Ill, 2 schol.; V, preface)…"

Spinoza: Practical Philosophy by Gilles Defeuze

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