The Difference of Man and the Difference it Makes (Humans)

by xeno6696 , Sonoran Desert, Tuesday, July 21, 2009, 22:17 (5395 days ago) @ David Turell

There's also been several studies on humans that have demonstrated that the brain makes decisions before we are consciously aware of them. (This should seem plainly obvious though as thoughts travel the speed of light.) 
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> Another thought. The studies you are referring to relate to taking action and speech. The brain starts before the action occurs or the words appear. However, if I decide to ruminate on a specific prblem, I initiate that process, even though I know that my recognized thought may pop up milliseconds after I start thinking. - Still, it eradicates the hypothesis Adler was discussing which appears to state that all conceptual processes have intention. If it was my question about "who or what is performing the intention," I give credit there to Nietzsche who ripped apart the psychology of his day--which seems to be the forefather of Popper's position. - OT but I recently came across a brilliant sounding book from MIT Press... it's Semiotics in Human-Computer Interaction. I'm uh... starting to wonder if I shouldn't just push out entirely on my own for that Master's thesis... the danger of course is in picking something that might not get me into NASA in 5 years. I also came across this brilliant editorial: - http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/19/opinion/19wolfe.html?_r=1&pagewanted=1 - While I am slowly figuring I won't be happy as a specialist, the type of researcher/engineer/philosopher NASA will need might just be my raison d'etre. Studying more broad topics and integrating them with what I know might be my path...

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