when we say that human behavior is unpredictable we are right, because it is too complex to be predicted, especially by ourselves. our intense sensation of interior liberty, as spinoza accurately saw, comes from the fact that the ideas and images we have of ourselves

are much cruder and sketchier than the detailed complexity of what is happening within us. we are the source of amazement in our own eyes.

but due to the limitations of our consciousness we perceive only a blurred vision of the world and live in time.