Free Will: Excellent discussion (Introduction)

by dhw, Friday, February 13, 2015, 14:02 (3571 days ago) @ David Turell

DAVID: A radio receiver illusion:-https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/social-brain-social-mind/201203/free-will-weighing-truth-and-experience
 
QUOTE: "I am a neuroscientist and so 99% of the time I behave like a materialist, acknowledging that the mind is real but fully dependent on the brain. But we don't actually know this. We really don't. We assume our sense of will is a causal result of the neurochemical processes in our brain, but this is a leap of faith. Perhaps the brain is something like a complex radio receiver that integrates consciousness signals that float around in some form..." -
What a stimulating post! He covers just about every point we've discussed ourselves, but I find it very reassuring when scientists in a particular field are prepared to challenge what elsewhere you have described as the “currently accepted” view. The Big Bang, the automaton cell, the non-existence of time, materialistic consciousness...take nothing for granted. What comes up today may well go down tomorrow.