[Synapse elist] More answers to Reva!

[W Shawn Gray]

G'day
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2008/6/12 Paul Brown <paul at paul-brown.com>:

> There is growing evidence that the neurological activity that
> generates an action takes place prior to any conscious awareness of
> the action (or need for action).

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Wikipedia (not the most reputable source I know) goes into this at
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_will
under the subheading 'Neuroscience' outlining the said experiments,
arguments
along with the case for "free won't", of the conscious veto.
In that context the 31 May 2008 issue of New Scientist has a great article
"Grand Theory of the Brain" about it all being a massive Bayesian
probability machine in constant comparison of ones expectation with
realities sensory feedback..
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>  This is being quoted (not by me) as
> some evidence that "free will" is an illusion (which fits well with
> contemporary "interactionist" views of consciousness and,
> interestingly, the Buddhist concept of Samsara).
>
>>

But Paul I am at a lost how the Buddhist cosmology that is Samsara fits in
there?

Many thanks.  W.Shawn Gray
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