Richard: where do you take a FREE REASONING from? I believe you just change 'will' into 'reasoning' - or: 'choice' int 'decision'? Are the so called counterproductive (self-destructive etc.) decisions based on past experience? Do (unknown/unknowable) pressures influence our decisions? are we abiding ALWAYS on foreseeable clear human logic? (BTW: what should we call "normal"?)
And then there are the 'creative' ones, taking their choice from lesser known options (e.g. an inventor?) and SUCCEED. (Or: not). Agnostically yours John Mikes On Mon, Jun 9, 2014 at 8:17 PM, Richard Ruquist <[email protected]> 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. > > > On Mon, Jun 9, 2014 at 8:13 PM, 'Chris de Morsella' via Everything List < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> 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? >> <http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/06/140609153508.htm> >> [image: image] >> <http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/06/140609153508.htm> >> Does 'free will' stem from brain noise? >> <http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/06/140609153508.htm> >> Our ability to make choices -- and sometimes mistakes -- might arise from >> random fluctuations in the brain's background electrical noise, according >> to a r... >> View on www.sciencedaily.com >> <http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/06/140609153508.htm> >> Preview by Yahoo >> >> >> >> -- >> 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 [email protected]. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > > -- > 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 [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- 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 [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
