@SeekingPlumb

We THINK we choose, but the brain decides before we do.

article image placeholderThe relativity of time.
So if you live to be 79 years, you will have a difference in age from someone else, perhaps of 90,000,000,000th of a second. So we're not talking a big difference here, but we keep learning more about the brain. I mean, the fact that it's connected to the gut, that they're finding neurotransmitters in our gut and so on. And that is definitely a difference of elevation of at least twelve inches, sometimes more, sometimes less depending on the person?

It's too unsettling! Grasping at Einstein's theory of relativity to explain it. #freewill #determinism

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Arish Ali
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Daniel Dennett https://s.swell.life/SSL2dcC358nQ8bG

Hi Christina, that was a very interesting soil. Covered a lot of ground, if you will, in terms of intellectually, so many different things you brought together. I've read that or read about the 1983 study as well. And I just wanted to to share this one. Thinker if you have not already read him, you come across call his name is Daniel Janet, and he has written a fair bit about this topic as well. Some good books
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@arish https://s.swell.life/SSL3TWFrKtaozk4

Thank you, Irish. A lot of my perspectives fit with his compatibilist view, but I was curious what his take was on this specific study. So I did a little digging. It's really fascinating, psychologically speaking to watch him think because he seems to not negate what the scientists have concluded. And in fact, I found out that the scientists who did that experiment did not make that conclusion. Others did
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Maybe it’s a mixture of both free will and determinism within us all?

You know, Christina, I've talked about this in the past, and I find it fascinating with the idea that even these thoughts that I'm projecting to you right now, there is a buffer. There is a delay. Now we can't measure this with a stopwatch because stopwatches just aren't that fast or aren't that complex
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@Wuandurful

I've wondered that too Dawan like the brain is so complex to observe one thing and then to come to such a definitive conclusion, it seems so strange. It's also interesting that whoever came to this conclusion based on that study somehow decided to treat the two things happening in the brain as separate entities rather than the sequential processes of the brain. So just because we were not conscious of making the decision prior does not necessarily mean we weren't responsible for making that decision
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