A Sense of Free Will: requires a properly functioning brain (Introduction)

by David Turell , Tuesday, August 11, 2015, 20:02 (3392 days ago) @ romansh


> Rom: So what is your disagreement with the original Washington Post article?
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> Can you copy and paste the specific conclusion you disagree with. It is just that I don't recall any specifically with respect to free will. I don't have access any longer.-This is the website:-https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/how-our-brains-toy-with-our-minds/2015/07/30/a979640e-299b-11e5-bd33-395c05608059_story.html?wpisrc=nl_popns&wpmm=1-This is the concluding quote I disagree with:-"A recent study found that explaining naive realism to people and showing them visual illusions reduced their certainty in their judgments of others' behavior — whether Donald is being hostile or just assertive. Maybe neuroscience education can help alleviate social strife. (Who knows how many wars the dress-color controversy has averted by highlighting the subjectivity of experience — not counting the ones it's sparked online?) One might start by explaining how the self is fabricated and that it is a fabrication, just like everything else we experience. “The man who wasn't there” is an evocative term for a particular pathological self-negation. But, according to neuroscience, none of us are here."-The author described pathological brain states and concluded the above. I don't think a normal brain can be thought of this way. As I've noted the normal brain provides for a conscious state and a sense of self. That it provides patterns for us from all its neurons in ionized states is helpful. If you reflect upon what you see, it is obvious that the arrangement is very helpful.