Hi Brent I think the researchers would agree. Its definately present stimuli they have in mind.
All the best --- Original Message --- From: "meekerdb" <meeke...@verizon.net> Sent: 3 September 2013 4:11 AM To: everything-list@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Determinism - Tricks of the Trade On 9/2/2013 7:34 AM, chris peck wrote: > The study you're citing firstly claims the 60% of the variance they uncovered > is > explained by 'spontaneous' brain activity not 60% of all brain activity. More > importantly, by spontaneous they just mean brain activity that has not been > triggered by > external stimuli: And how could they possibly know whether some brain event was triggered by a stored perception of you grandmother when you were five? All they can say is it wasn't triggered by a *present* external stimuli. Brent -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.