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In reply to the discussion: Free will and consciousness [View all]Jim__
(14,075 posts)21. A neurological basis for free will - a conversation with Antonio Demasio.
About the first 6:00 - 6:30 of the video is a discussion on homeostasis. Then Hustvedt brings up Libet's experiments. At around 8:00 minutes the conversation goes something like:
Hustvedt: ... you might want to refine this notion of the degree to which a finding like that does not tell us that we have no free will.
Demasio: It doesn't because in fact most of the notions that we associate with deliberation ... decisions that are important for one's life are not taken the same way that we move this finger ...
Demasio: It doesn't because in fact most of the notions that we associate with deliberation ... decisions that are important for one's life are not taken the same way that we move this finger ...
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First of all, the claim that one side has the burden of proof with respect to a phenomenon ...
Jim__
Sep 2016
#4
Where did that thought to raise your arm come from? (pretend you actually had that thought)
cpwm17
Sep 2016
#6
Yes, with brain imaging scientists can study which areas in the brain are involved
cpwm17
Sep 2016
#15
"Johns Hopkins University researchers are the first to glimpse the human brain making a purely ...
Jim__
Sep 2016
#20
The haven't supported free will, as I am using that term, and it's frequently used.
cpwm17
Sep 2016
#25
They are talking about a purely voluntary decision to act. They are calling that free will.
Jim__
Sep 2016
#29
Conscious freedom to choose requires consciousness to be the originator of thoughts.
cpwm17
Sep 2016
#38
Please cite your source for the claim about the most common definition of free will.
Jim__
Sep 2016
#39
The subtle feelings are related to what Antonio Damasio calls background feelings
cpwm17
Sep 2016
#16
Demasio apparently thinks we have free will, though he didn't explain in detail how it works,
cpwm17
Sep 2016
#28
People seem to have a pretty good idea about how to make thoughts "pop into our heads."
Jim__
Sep 2016
#30
As I wrote before, the vast majority of what happens in the brain is outside of consciousness.
cpwm17
Sep 2016
#41
You would have free will if your thoughts and actions originate from consciousness and if you had
cpwm17
Sep 2016
#8
This smells to me like philosophy in the service of reactionary politics:
struggle4progress
Sep 2016
#19