Ontology has shaped your behavior in significant ways.

Describe two separate and significant choices you've made in your life that were shaped by the ideas found in popular ontological theories:

• Unconscious: You were aware of your thoughts and feelings at the time you made the choice, but only see the resonance with a popular ontological theory in retrospect.
• Conscious: You were conscious of the ontological ideas shaping this choice when you made it.

Do you think there is value added when a conscious conceptual link to ontological theory is present?