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| kadomony |
| quote: | You may think you decided to read this story -- but in fact, your brain made the decision long before you knew about it.
In a study published Sunday in Nature Neuroscience, researchers using brain scanners could predict people's decisions seven seconds before the test subjects were even aware of making them. |
http://www.wired.com/science/discov...4/mind_decision
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| Lebezniatnikov |
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| heathen |
 i can hear the birds chirping ... |
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| Chris Crossland |
| quote: | Originally posted by KandyKid_420
Stop using smack = no more problems. |
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| pkcRAISTLIN |
| haha @ leskalash. |
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| silene |
| Didn't read the story, so suck it scientists! |
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| Lucas-K |
| in scientists. Damn you!! |
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| Esiotrat |
| If you choose not to decide you still have made a choice. |
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| SuspicionVandit |
| quote: | Originally posted by Enigmatik
If you choose not to decide you still have made a choice. |
all that is certain is uncertainty |
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| Esiotrat |
| quote: | Originally posted by SuspicionVandit
all that is certain is uncertainty |
Death and taxes? |
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| PETRAN |
Oh yeah i remember this literature, its experimental psychology and cognitive neuroscience of free will. Actually, a psychologist called Daniel Wegner has proved through extensive experimental research on normal individuals that the "will to act" is an illusion deriving from meta-cognitive processes that occur AFTER an individual's performed action/decision.
According to Wegner, the brain's fast unconscious computations evaluate the enviroment and produce an outcome which makes the individual to decide/act. At the same time, a simultaneous process associated with language and self-awareness produces the illusion that it was the individual's conscious awareness that made him/her act (whilst the act/decision itself was chosen without conscious awareness)and creates the illusion of "Apparent Causality" (that "I" performed the act/decision) resulting in the illusion of free will.
Also, a neuroscientist called Benjamin Libet had also used psycho-physiological apparatus such as Electro-Encephalography (EEG), Verbal response of presented stimulus and Electro-Myography (EMG), and proved that the EEG signal of the movement's preparation (evoked potential) comes FIRST, FOLLOWED by the Conscious awareness reflected on the verbal response, which in turn occurs before the EMG that detects the hand movement.
It seems now that they also used Brain Imaging to prove that... |
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| aquila |
| Sorry, we can't free Will. There's no cure for mono :( |
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