Information and free will (Introduction)

by David Turell , Monday, October 10, 2011, 01:30 (4772 days ago) @ dhw


> http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204612504576608801724343980.html?KEYWORDS... 
> I have read it twice with both jaundiced eyes, but still can't follow the argument. This is the field of evolutionary psychology, so when the author talks of "specialized mental circuits" is he referring to "the neurology of brain scans" or to mental processes? Are the "modules" physical or psychological? He says: "...there's no such thing as a unified self, just a collection of modules", so does he mean different facets of the personality are in conflict or different sections of the physical brain? If it's the latter, I can't believe neurologists have pin-pointed these "modules" with such precision, and if it's the former, what's new? Either way, I don't think it gets us much further!-Neither can I.Idiots get published and the public fawns over scientific jibberish. However the following early concepts re quantum theory and the brain does fit what I know about acupuncture and chinese medicine. Quanta, brain, consciousness, all gov together somehow:-http://www.comtecmed.com/cony/2011/Uploads/assets/schwartz_ssnnsession.pdf-This describes a course he gives. He has visited China. He wrote the book: You are not your brain.