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TRN

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Re: TRN
« Reply #45 on: July 02, 2017, 11:08:40 am »
Around a week ago I actually watched a youtube series called Mind Field that has an episode on Freedom of Choice. There was a device that reads brainwaves and "knows" when the subjects are going to push a button before they actually do it. The show felt more like entertainment or "food for thought" than serious "science" to me so I searched a few databases, so far:

(feel free to skip because nothing really interesting)
- value assigning system is a part of decision making. And whether it occurs in one or multiple regions of the brain(still debatable)
- Neural noise is "relevant" to the understanding of free will and moral responsibility
- in one article their definition of "autonomy" includes "consistent with the individual's higher-order beliefs and desires" in the sense that "first-order desires" are the primal ones such as hunger and resentment at being mistreated(??), and beyond that we are "free to want what we want". It all goes downhill from there.

So, basically they(the ones I read) are often off-mark and painfully vague. The problem with science or with "learning" from all external sources, be it spiritual teachings or scientific journals, is that in the end it's a form of accepting certain beliefs. How do I know if it's another lie or not?

If I apply this "How do I know?" approach to my own thinking and beliefs (which is likely to not be my own), for example to my previous post, the n really, that was a hypothesis at best. Or a hallucination. Look into myself and I find more lies - they aren't even lies, just floating possibilities(quantum mechanic-y!)

Why Anything?
Why not??
 ??? ??? ???
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