Actually, the reason you don't shit your pants is because your brain, regardless of what you are doing, will create the thought "I need to take a shit" before it happens. It doesn't matter what you're doing, the thought will happen, just as all other thoughts do.
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LOL. No doubt some would have harangued him but the fact remains it remains unexplained.
True.@Hume @Tobytone
Also:
Brain activity can foretell some choices before subjects are conscious of them.
Posted December 21, 2020
We like to think that when it comes to our daily decisions, we’re the ones running the show. For example, when you opt for the Matcha Green Tea Latte instead ofTrue your usual Cinnamon Dulce Latte, you’d like to believe that you made the conscious decision to switch. But what if that purchase intention was already made before you became aware of your decision to buy it?
Our Brains Make Up Our Minds Before We Know It
In the bustle of our daily lives, many of our choices are made without any conscious thought.
Was that an unplanned thought of weakness and hate? You can't help it, thoughts just come from the ass, or a least, that's what your buddy thinks and I'm starting to believe it with comments like yours.
Other than complex language, what makes people different than dogs or other animals?
Ok sure, then I thought go to the toilet. lol
A moral conscience, abstract thinking, ability to transcend ourselves and conceive of higher mathematics, spirituality, aesthetic appreciation.
You're a Zionist. You deserve the worst, you baby-killing half-wit.
Right. Another thought you didn't control.
I was referring to:
See, you should've just started with that instead of attempting to make the point all by yourself. Then, the response would be, what's your point? The OP is about consciousness, why we have it, how we got it. The thread wasn't 'obvious realities about the mind' I'm not thinking about breathing either, but I can consciously contemplate how that is and why, unlike say, a dog or maybe even, a theory I've been working on, a libtard. lol (not suggesting you are one, it's just a little hobby of mine)@Tobytone @Hume
There is scientific research to backup what I'm saying:
Not only could the researchers predict which pattern they would choose, they could also predict how strongly the participants were to rate their visualisations. With the assistance of machine learning, the researchers were successful at making above-chance predictions of the participants’ volitional choices at an average of 11 seconds before the thoughts became conscious.
Our brains reveal our choices before we’re even aware of them: study
We like to think that we are in the driver’s seat when it comes to the choice and strength of our everyday thoughts, but new research from UNSW suggests they might be more automatic and unconscious than we think.
A new UNSW study suggests we have less control over our personal choices than we think, and that unconscious brain activity determines our choices well before we are aware of them.
Published in the prestigious Nature journal today, opens in a new window, an experiment carried out in the Future Minds Lab at UNSW School of Psychology showed that free choices about what to think can be predicted from patterns of brain activity 11 seconds before people consciously chose what to think about.
The experiment consisted of asking people to freely choose between two visual patterns of red and green stripes – one of them running horizontally, the other vertically – before consciously imagining them while being observed in a functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) machine.
The participants were also asked to rate how strongly they felt their visualisations of the patterns were after choosing them, again while researchers recorded their brain activity during the process.
Not only could the researchers predict which pattern they would choose, they could also predict how strongly the participants were to rate their visualisations. With the assistance of machine learning, the researchers were successful at making above-chance predictions of the participants’ volitional choices at an average of 11 seconds before the thoughts became conscious.
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My last response applies to this as well.@Hume @Tobytone
Also:
Watching decision making in the brain
A team of neuroscientists and engineers have developed a system that can show the neural process of decision making in real time, including the mental process of flipping between options before expressing a final choice.
A lot of our thoughts and behaviors cannot be explained by the DNA molecule, chromosomes, or evolutionary biology.
I'm picturing you, idiotically pedaling to your little Starbucks gathering with three other equally delusional buddies, plotting to dip into your trust fund for a vanity trip to Iran. You haven't been invited, but in your infinite arrogance, you think they desperately need your 'high intelligence'. Am I even close, help me out.
Ok buddy, I have no control over ending this fascinating conversation, it's just happening.
Good point. Is AI ever going to produce a Michelangelo, a Beethoven, a Shakespeare, an Oskar Schindler?
Sure. I'd say very little is determined by DNA, chromosomes, etc. The majority is determined by external causes, i.e. everything we experience. We just happen to experience life with complex language, where other animals don't.
