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Neuroscience and Free Will
Posted by Pete Berg on Tuesday, January 26th, 2010 at 6:00 am
How much of your conscious decisions do you actually control? Or is your brain just chemically reacting to environmental stimuli, and all of your “thoughts” and “decisions” are just part of nature’s grand domino effect?
In this clip, Marcus Du Sautoy (Professor of Mathematics at the University of Oxford) participates in an experiment conducted by John-Dylan Haynes (Professor at the Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience Berlin) that attempts to find the neurological basis for decision making. The results are really quite shocking.
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Tim Graupmann says:
I wonder if the [Emotiv] helmet could detect the changes in the same brain region as being cheaper than using an MRI?
What frequency ranges are the changes happening?
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