Here we go, back to the "free will" debate. And then I ran across a disturbing news article that argues evidence that there may be no such thing as free will.
"The conscious decision to push the button was made about a second before the actual act, but the team discovered that a pattern of brain activity seemed to predict that decision by as many as seven seconds. Long before the subjects were even aware of making a choice, it seems, their brains had already decided."
and further
"As humans, we like to think that our decisions are under our conscious control — that we have free will. Philosophers have debated that concept for centuries, and now Haynes and other experimental neuroscientists are raising a new challenge. They argue that consciousness of a decision may be a mere biochemical afterthought, with no influence whatsoever on a person's actions. According to this logic, they say, free will is an illusion. "We feel we choose, but we don't," says Patrick Haggard, a neuroscientist at University College London."
See the complete article here: http://www.nature.com/news/2011/110831/full/477023a.html
So, if this is true, who/what is doing the choosing? Is there even really a choice?
Just as important: NOW WHAT???
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