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

by David Turell , Wednesday, August 12, 2015, 23:38 (3178 days ago) @ romansh

Ron: My understanding of your position might be somewhat limited, but I'm sure your radio analogy might point to having an "improperly" functioning brain might interfere with consciousness and consequently the sense of free will and self?-Simply, yes. But the radio analogy is just an attempt at understanding how consciousness seems to survive temporary death, as shown by its appearance when the brain is non-functional by all tests known to medicine.
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> > David As I work on a new project its plasticity provides a new area of neurons to handle the load. It provides patterns to help me discern reality.
 
> Rom: This brain plasticity is purely unconscious is it not?-Yes. We are not aware of it as it happens.
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> > David: I've accepted that as a reasonable compromise for a biologic computer at the basis of my consciousness. I frankly don't know how else it could work.
 
> rom: Therefore a god did it?-I don't think that one fact arrives at 'therefore'. The issue for me is how consciousness appeared. It is for Thomas Nagel also.