Are we nothing ore than a reflexive autonomous bio-robot?
A new study into the causality of decisions gives a few hints that this may be the case. It revolves around subjects making decisions while a MRI scans their brain.
What the boffins discovered is that they were able to predict what decision the subjects would make before the subjects were conscious they had made a choice, based upon brain activity.
Philoso-boffins don't necessarily think this puts to rest the idea of mindful free will, or self determinism, stating that neuro-boffins equate free will to be a theological term, sort of a presupposition of the duality of mind/brain.
What do you think? Are you a master of your domain, or are you an aggregate of neurological and chemical biases?
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Thursday, September 29, 2011
Neuroscience vs philosophy: Taking aim at free will
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