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10. I watched a show on Science channel a week or so ago

Thu Dec 15, 2011, 10:53 PM

Dec 2011

It was a show on consciousness, and the show's host went to a lab that was able to predict what action he would take 10 seconds or more before he performed the action. The computer knew even before he made a conscious decision what he was going to do.

It was kind of freaky to watch and to know that there's so much going on outside our consciousness. There may be a lot that is "programmed" into us (for lack of a better term).

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Is Free Will an Illusion? [View all] FarCenter Dec 2011 OP

No. -- I am programmed to say that. immoderate Dec 2011 #1

Probably. n/t laconicsax Dec 2011 #2

A couple of thoughts. Jim__ Dec 2011 #3

Wow. This is gonna make a hit at the Annual Solipsism Tournament! n/t TygrBright Dec 2011 #4

I really wanted to say no... Fumesucker Dec 2011 #5

Within the context of some religions for whom it is a key doctrinal element...yup. iris27 Dec 2011 #6

Free from what? ChadwickHenryWard Dec 2011 #7

Two possibilities are that ... Boojatta Dec 2011 #9

The alternative is not predestination, but rather that the unconscious makes most of the decisions FarCenter Dec 2011 #24

If one has no choices, and if (in particular) one has no choice about the positions struggle4progress Dec 2011 #8

I watched a show on Science channel a week or so ago EvolveOrConvolve Dec 2011 #10

Well all of that is based on one single beliefe zeemike Dec 2011 #11

It may also be that time is a giant space octopus, or an odorless scent. laconicsax Dec 2011 #12

Can't prrove a negative... zeemike Dec 2011 #18

How do they explain devices that measure time? ZombieHorde Dec 2011 #14

Obviously, clocks aren't real. n/t laconicsax Dec 2011 #15

No clocks are real zeemike Dec 2011 #20

How do you know what you claim to know? laconicsax Dec 2011 #29

He may be using one of the "other ways of knowing," cleanhippie Dec 2011 #41

They don't zeemike Dec 2011 #17

The Platonic forms don't exist, sorry. n/t laconicsax Dec 2011 #21

And you know this how? zeemike Dec 2011 #23

I could ask you the exact same question. laconicsax Dec 2011 #28

I am not claiming to know anything zeemike Dec 2011 #39

Sure you are. You have made several bold proclamations. cleanhippie Dec 2011 #42

Cave-mechanics tama Dec 2011 #27

Our mind is the source of all perception. zeemike Dec 2011 #40

Name it tama Dec 2011 #44

Are you saying everything happens at once? nt ZombieHorde Dec 2011 #22

I am not saying anything ...I am saying that illusion is possable in the mind zeemike Dec 2011 #25

What time is real, what illusion? tama Dec 2011 #19

Perhaps it is all illusion zeemike Dec 2011 #26

Time doesn't exist? ChadwickHenryWard Dec 2011 #31

Time tama Dec 2011 #32

Unfortunatly this brings up another mind boggler zeemike Dec 2011 #38

No trouble tama Dec 2011 #45

I know it chalanges your mind zeemike Dec 2011 #37

How can you call something an "illusion" ChadwickHenryWard Dec 2011 #46

Well I probably should not have brought this up here zeemike Dec 2011 #47

There was a study that suggested people have "free won't." ZombieHorde Dec 2011 #13

I heard of the "Free Won't" hypothesis a while ago. It's very interesting. Odin2005 Dec 2011 #16

Freedom not to choose?! nt tama Dec 2011 #33

I don't believe in free will, uriel1972 Dec 2011 #30

What's really going to bake your noodle later is darkstar3 Dec 2011 #34

How will I choose to respond? uriel1972 Dec 2011 #35

I think my point was about "illusion" darkstar3 Dec 2011 #36

Massimo Pigliucci's free will roundtable. Jim__ Dec 2011 #43

This is going to get complicated. so bear with me. westerebus Dec 2011 #48

The "sacrifice of his only son" would be inconsequential to god FarCenter Dec 2011 #49

But not to man. westerebus Dec 2011 #50