Science of Self (Humans)

by David Turell @, Sunday, March 09, 2014, 15:27 (3663 days ago) @ romansh


> Romansh: Is not the self's recollection of it's choices a confabulation of all the bioelectrochemical actions?-Confabulate is to lie. I think that is the wrong conclusion. Just because we don't understand how the brain gives us what it does give, is no reason to suspect we are not in control of our brain and self. We are unaware, as kids, that we are creating ourselves in memories and personal conclusions. The brain's plasticity conforms all of it, and, poor choice of word but fits, we emerge. In some way miraculous, but it happens to all of us, and then some of us doubt when we see a glimpse how it is being done. We don't understand enough yet to be critical of the process, or suspect it is nefarious.


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