| Re: Freewill implausible? |
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Group: alt.philosophy · Group Profile
Author: ImmortalistImmortalist Date: Aug 2, 2008 16:52
On Aug 2, 6:23 am, John wrote:
> Fishing in the stream of consciousness, researchers
> now can detect our intentions and predict our choices
> before we are aware of them ourselves. The brain,
> they have found, appears to make up its mind 10
> seconds before we become conscious of a decision
> -- an eternity at the speed of thought.
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> Their findings challenge conventional notions
> of choice.
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> "We think our decisions are conscious," said neuroscientist
> John-Dylan Haynes at the Bernstein Center for
> Computational Neuroscience in Berlin, who is pioneering
> this research. "But these data show that consciousness
> is just the tip of the iceberg.
>
If we look at the argument form itself, irrelevant of the science, it
is weak. If we replace the subject and predicates, we get an argument
form that would support other counter-examples, such as;
A see-Captain sailing, could not be aware of all the stresses and
tensions of the entire ship when he turned the wheel, but he could not
guided the large mass of wood and sail with the parts he could be
aware of.
Obviously the aware part of us is enought to steer large amounts of
activities in the brain that are unaware.
Another weakness of the article is that it appears to quantify moments
and how many are required for a growth of thought or a working out of
a solution. Wall Stree Wankas
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