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Volition (n)- The act of making a choice. I chose to ignore the beggar on the street holding the “God Bless You” sign. I set my eyes forward as I waited at the stoplight hoping not to gain eye contact. Beseeching the red light to quickly turn green, I wiggled my nose like a scene from Bewitched. Then, I coaxed my lack of sympathy with, “he’ll just use the money to buy alcohol.” I chose to avoid my not-so-friendly coworker who was having another bad day. My mind told me I wouldn’t know what to say, so I left her...

Coffee or tea with lunch? Which pants to wear to work? Which movie to watch? Your mind might be made up before you know it. Researchers have found patterns of brain activity that predict people's decisions up to 10 seconds before they're aware they've made a choice. In the 1980s, psychologist Benjamin Libet of the University of California, San Francisco, caught people's brains jumping the gun on consciousness. A few hundred milliseconds before a person thought he or she decided to press a button, brain areas related to movement were already active. The result was hard for some to stomach...

A metaphysical exploration of Religion, Consciousness, Free Will, Randomness, and, ultimately, the nature of God. Neuroscience, networking (of man, God, and governments), and AI computing are all discussed. A Theory of God God has never been defined to the satisfaction of rational man. Indeed, even His very existence has never been universally acknowledged. From Thomas Aquinas's famous '5 proofs of God' (3) and the writings of other great philosophers of the catholic church, to the tautological hierarchical constructions of modern philosophers (1), there has never been a logical argument strong enough to force all the atheists and agnostics of the...