On 10 Jun 2014, at 02:17, Richard Ruquist wrote:
I believe that free will arises from reasoning.
When confronted with two or more options
humans use reasoning based usually on past experience
to choose a single option from the 2 or more options.
Hmm... It applies through the limit of reasoning, I would say, so that
you keep more attention on the senses than the sounds, and let your
left brain abandon the decision to the right brain, which is the one
keeping an umbilical chord with the ... ah! I forgot the name.
Bruno
On Mon, Jun 9, 2014 at 8:13 PM, 'Chris de Morsella' via Everything
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Summary: Our ability to make choices -- and sometimes mistakes --
might arise from random fluctuations in the brain's background
electrical noise, according to a recent study. New research shows
how arbitrary states in the brain can influence apparently voluntary
decisions.
Excerpt: "The brain has a normal level of "background noise,"
Bengson said, as electrical activity patterns fluctuate across the
brain. In the new study, decisions could be predicted based on the
pattern of brain activity immediately before a decision was made.
Bengson sat volunteers in front of a screen and told them to fix
their attention on the center, while using electroencephalography,
or EEG, to record their brains' electrical activity. The volunteers
were instructed to make a decision to look either to the left or to
the right when a cue symbol appeared on screen, and then to report
their decision.
The cue to look left or right appeared at random intervals, so the
volunteers could not consciously or unconsciously prepare for it.
The brain has a normal level of "background noise," Bengson said, as
electrical activity patterns fluctuate across the brain. The
researchers found that the pattern of activity in the second or so
before the cue symbol appeared -- before the volunteers could know
they were going to make a decision -- could predict the likely
outcome of the decision.
"The state of the brain right before presentation of the cue
determines whether you will attend to the left or to the right,"
Bengson said."
Does 'free will' stem from brain noise?
Does 'free will' stem from brain noise?
Our ability to make choices -- and sometimes mistakes -- might arise
from random fluctuations in the brain's background electrical noise,
according to a r...
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