On Apr 3, 4:58 pm, Craig Weinberg <[email protected]> wrote: > On Apr 3, 5:07 am, 1Z <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > > Why not? If the brain is deterministic then beliefs are deterministic > > > > and changing them > > > > by external inputs can change performance. > > > > The belief is about the power to self determine though. The > > > performance change is evidence that some change is possible. > > > Change is possible under determinism. In a sense. > > Is it though? It would require some pretty tortured reasoning I > think.
Determinism doens't require every process to continue uninterrupted. The interruptions are changes. > If I can suggest something that always makes a placebo work better > (against other suggestions which do not), then the placebo + > suggestion becomes medicine. ???? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list?hl=en.
