please explain.
On Jul 22, 1:09 pm, ornamentalmind <[email protected]> wrote:
> I think that posting to a Google group (Mind's Eye) and then linking
> the discussion to a personal website, giving the impression it is the
> locus of attention, is a deceptive practice.
>
> On Jul 22, 7:29 am, Molly Brogan <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > Are we in control of ourselves, our lives, our families, our worlds?
> > Or are we just aware and knowing what one can do if something
> > unpredictable happens?
> > There are many explanations for why we do what we do. For example,
> > Thomas Metzinger's new Book, The Ego Tunnel: The Science of the Mind
> > and the Myth of the Self, seriously questions whether there is even an
> > "I", let alone a "we." And Douglas Hofstadter's book, I Am a Strange
> > Loop, contends that the "self" is a recursively self-referencing
> > memory loop.
>
> > Hundreds of experiments by Benjamin Libet and others tend to
> > conclusively confirm that our brain prepares to execute our decisions
> > before we are even aware that anything is being decided. It alerts us
> > to our decisions only in time (a split second) for us to veto them.
>
> > Seehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Libet, as well as Benjamin
> > Libet's book, Mind Time, and Walter J. Freeman's book, How Brains Make
> > Up Their Minds.
>
> > It is quite likely that we have no so-called "free will" other than
> > veto power over our specific actions. Our free will may consist
> > instead of 1) being mindful about any ill-serving subliminal
> > intentions and tendencies that inform our actions so that we are
> > accordingly prepared to veto any action that they correspondingly
> > inform, and of 2) programming (or reprogramming) our subliminal
> > intentions to be more productive of the experiencing that we most
> > desire.
>
> > Do we have the power to create our realities? Are we in control?
> > What do YOU think?
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