Pushing Upstairs and Downstairs: We Do Not Completely Know if We Own Our Actions
In 1999, British electronic dance music (EDM) collective Underworld (the principal collaborative project of Karl Hyde and Rick Smith) released their fifth studio album, Beaucoup Fish. It contained the track “Push Upstairs”.
Per one source, “In business, to ‘push upstairs’ means to promote someone either unwillingly or with an ulterior motive,” as I liken this phase to one aspect of mental, emotional, and behavioral health (collectively “mental health”). Specifically, I stated in Nature, Nurture, and Other:
Even though a person cannot be dissected to a degree whereby consciousness is adequately observed, measured, or analyzed, it’s generally accepted that self-awareness exists. Ergo, humans are said to maintain sentience of which we cannot fully explain. […]
The more I practice REBT [Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy] in my personal and professional life, the more convinced I become that an “other” category exists whereby elements not entirely related to “nature” or “nature” influence what people think, believe, feel (emotions and sensations), and how they behave.
Pushing upstairs, from a mental health perspective, regards things that occur “unwillingly”—which are beyond your control or influence—and of which you simply remain aware. This brings to mind the Underworld song “Push Downstairs”, which was also featured on Beaucoup Fish.
If pushing upstairs represents the way one feels (emotions and sensations), with one’s mind becoming aware of this process, then, from a mental health outlook, pushing downstairs regards one’s mind activating feelings and behavior. Now, consider what I stated in On Free Will:
[M]y approach to REBT is predicated on the notion that: 1) Humans have free will. 2) Humans have personal agency and ownership regarding their reactions to events. 3) Humans are fallible and will never react perfectly.
This position is in alignment with Stoicism, which also influences the practice of REBT. Worth adding, one REBT source states:
REBT will not be effective until someone believes that they are an agent who has the free will to make significant shifts in thoughts, emotions and behaviors. While there are obviously some limits to the concept of free will and we cannot literality will ourselves to be whatever we want, the concept that there is room to change and improve is elementary to the system.
Addressing a limit to free will, in a blogpost entitled Circle of Concern I illustrated how each individual has constraints in regard to personal control by stating:
Suppose I encouraged you to stop your digestive processing, heart rate, blinking for a full day, breathing for a full hour, or growing hair through sheer will. It is unlikely most people would be able to control these processes.
Additionally, in a blog entry entitled The Rider, the Elephant, and the Path I highlighted how absolute logic and reason isn’t how the human mind functions. Arguably, other processes heavily influence how we behave.
As well, neuroscientist Robert Sapolsky presents an interesting though not entirely convincing argument against free will. In one video, Sapolsky states:
Everybody thinks they’re seeing free will when we choose something. We’re consciously aware of doing it, we know [to perceive directly: have direct cognition of] what the consequences are likely to be. Most importantly, we know there’s alternatives available to us. And for most people that’s necessary and sufficient, there’s free will. And my whole point is that misses everything that’s going on, because you’re not asking the only important question, which is: How did you become this sort of person who would have that intent at that point?
And the answer is, because of the biology over which you had no control, interacting with the environment over which you had no control, stretching from one second ago to the moment you were a fertilized egg. And when you look at how that stuff works, there’s not a crack anywhere in which you insert sort of the everyday intuitive notion of free will.
Countering Sapolsky’s claim, a separate source accurately suggests, “When you decide after careful deliberation that free will does not exist, you demonstrate that it does exist. That is the Sapolsky paradox.”
Still, one proposal I find convincing in regard to the neuroscientist’s work is what Sapolsky stated in a separate video:
I think in terms of free will, determinism – all of that, my feeling has always been there’s not a whole lot of free will out there. And if there is, it’s in the least interesting places and getting more sparse all the time. Now, there’s this whole new realm of neuroscience that I’ve been thinking about starting to do research on that throws in another element of things going on below the surface, affecting our behavior, and it’s got to do with this utterly bizarre world of parasites manipulating your behavior.
So, it turns out this is like not all that surprising, there’s all sorts of parasites out there. They get into an organism and what they need to do is parasite as the organism and increase the likelihood that they—the parasite—will be fruitful and multiply. And in some cases they could manipulate the behavior of the host. And some of these are pretty astounding.
This argument adds an additional element to the nature versus nurture debate. For instance, one’s genetic code which is passed down by relatives (nature) and an individual’s upbringing (nurture) may not fully explain a foreign environmental factor in adulthood such as a parasite that manipulates behavior.
This alternative element perceivably could influence one’s free will in regard to beliefs, decision-making, emotions, and behaviors.
Whether pushing upstairs or pushing downstairs, when events are “unwillingly” thrust upon us, our free will may take us only so far in our ability to engage in problem-solving activities. In essence, fallible human beings aren’t in complete control of our actions.
For context, the American Psychological Association defines action as “a self-initiated sequence of movements, usually with respect to some goal. It may consist of an integrated set of component behaviors as opposed to a single response.”
Now, as REBT was formed by the late psychologist Albert Ellis, who reportedly developed the first cognitive behavior therapy (CBT) psychotherapeutic modality in 1955, this blog entry is part of an ongoing series regarding his book, Ask Albert Ellis?: Straight Answers and Sound Advice from America’s Best-Known Psychologist.
When practicing REBT, I use personal responsibility and accountability (collectively “ownership”). For improved understanding, responsibility is defined as the quality or state of being responsible, such as a moral, legal, or mental accountability.
Here, “responsible” is defined as liable to be called to account as the primary cause, motive, or agent, and being able to answer for one’s conduct and obligations—something, such as the demands of conscience or custom, that obligates one to a course of action.
Also, “accountable” is defined as subject to giving an account—a statement explaining one’s conduct. Accountability is defined as the quality or state of being accountable, especially regarding an obligation or willingness to accept responsibility or to account for one’s actions.
When providing psychoeducational lessons on REBT, a psychotherapeutic modality which arguably requires that one preferably should take personal ownership in order to reduce self-distress or self-disturbance, I lean heavily on both responsibility and accountability.
This is because I maintain that people have personal agency (a person’s ability to control one’s own reactions to activating events which are beyond one’s own dominion, especially when one’s response is limited by someone or something else). This is a matter of self-empowerment.
Although it may seem like a matter of disempowerment to claim that pushing upstairs and downstairs isn’t something within our full control as fallible human beings, I maintain that this is merely a matter of truth about reality. Regarding this notion, Ellis stated (pages 28 and 29):
We do not completely know if we own our actions. We partly and importantly have some significant choices of our actions; but we are inevitably restricted by biological and social learning influences that limit our choices.
Therefore, if we clearly see and change our dysfunctional thinking, feeling, and behaving, as Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy shows us how to do, we can take forward-looking steps to considerably improve our present and future. Yes, we often may refuse to take responsibility for our actions. But we can!
Concerning the act of pushing upstairs and downstairs—as one’s body communicates with one’s mind and vice versa—we do not completely know if we own our actions. Nevertheless, we can assume personal ownership to a degree whereby we can effectively practice REBT.
Otherwise, as perhaps endorsed by Sapolsky, we may as well disempoweringly pretend as though fallible human beings have no free will. If you hold that belief, then what won’t you do? Thus, if you have no ownership of your own actions, then prepare for a lot of chaotic pushing!
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