" The INFJ Was Not Born — They Were Broken Into One"

[Wyote]

Either we are chemical machines determined by the past, or we are beings capable of transcending trauma

This is exactly what hurt my noodle brain at the start of this thread

It is not an either-or situation but humans cannot grapple with outside the box thinking with this whole concept

Consider "free will" not being exactly what you perceive it to be
Or consider consciousness to be outside of this current lived experience in some kind of way

(Not you personally, this is for the greater conversation at hand)