Information and free will: brain scan value? (Introduction)

by David Turell , Monday, November 28, 2011, 18:30 (4744 days ago) @ dhw

If there really is no mind/body dualism (i.e. no unknown form of energy that is able to control the physical brain), the alternative can only be that within the brain is a physical mechanism that has overall control (will). Maybe in another ten thousand years scientists will have come up with the goods – hold on, David…I haven’t finished yet – a machine that has its own consciousness and will, with ten thousand refinements to the mechanisms already built in our time. This will prove that will, consciousness, emotion etc. do have their source in materials. But it will also prove that conscious minds have experimented over and over again, refining existing machines step by step, discarding those that don’t work, retaining those that do, adapting them, adding new bits….So hey ho, what do we have? Evolution guided by conscious design. Only speculating, folks.

And here is an article that says psychopaths have different brain structure. Remember that a child's conscience is formed by age 12 from parents and other social input, but if a brain is built in such a way that it cannot accept that education, we get a weird personality:

http://the-scientist.com/2011/11/28/psychopathic-pathology/