Hi Brent

I think the researchers would agree. Its definately present stimuli they have 
in mind.

All the best



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From: "meekerdb" <[email protected]>
Sent: 3 September 2013 4:11 AM
To: [email protected]
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

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