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To: sparklite2
Should have been here for the crevo threads.

But short of that, pick up a contemporary book on human sexuality and that will show the the pretended autonomy of theoretical thought.

21 posted on 11/30/2017 8:40:52 PM PST by aspasia
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To: aspasia

An experiment was done in the late sixties where a subject was hooked up to a monitor. Then the subject was given a trigger which stopped a clock when pressed. He was instructed to pull the trigger on the spur of the moment, then record the time when the clock stopped.

I can’t remember all the details, but what they found was that seconds before the subject reported making a conscious decision to stop the clock, signals were already building up in the muscles that controlled the trigger.

IOW, the little guy sitting in our heads who makes conscious decisions is really under the influence of something happening at a deeper level and the notion of free will needs tempering.


23 posted on 11/30/2017 8:52:34 PM PST by sparklite2 (I hereby designate the ongoing kerfuffle Diddle-Gate.)
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