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 <yann...@gmail.com> 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 < > everything-list@googlegroups.com> 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 everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. >> 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 everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. > 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 everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
