> On Aug 2, 6:23 am, John wrote:
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>>http://online.wsj.com/article/SB121450609076407973.html
>> 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.

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> 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;
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> 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.
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> Obviously the aware part of us is enought to steer large amounts of
> activities in the brain that are unaware.
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> 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
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