Medicine Forever,
http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0021612
http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0021612
: You started deciding to read this before you thought you did.
Recently, we demonstrated using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) that the outcome of free decisions can be decoded…
stumbled across this and James Duffy came to mind (due to pre-conscious brain activity?) http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Ad…
Sorry folks, looks like we don't have "free-will" after all. Our awareness is secondary to unconscious brain activity leading…
Our brains make choices before we're conscious of them!
The Free Will vs. Determinism debate. I know where I stand, but I also know that I stand there not because of anything rational…
They're kidding, right? Tell me you you don't let hocus pocus like this influence your beliefs about free will. They give the…
Do we have free will? http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0021612
So. Just learned that it was determined in a study, using an fMRI, that our mind makes decisions before we are conscious of them.
Decisions, decisions...
Where and how does our subjectively free sense of willing come from? Predictive activity patterns recorded *before* a…
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Here is the source: http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0021612?imageURI=info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0…
Very neat article with a lot of interesting implications. One surprise -- decisions can be detected in frontopolar cortex…