Blindsight: Some people who have lost their vision find a “second sight”

Re:Blindsight: Some people who have lost their vision find a... by Eric_WVGG on Monday September 28, 2015 @10:47AM (#10290718)

There is a study that made the rounds back in 2008 where scientists claimed they could prove that people’s brains make decisions about 7-10 seconds before they consciously “decide,” suggesting that cognitive thought is really just rationalizing decisions that our brain already made for us. blah blah free will we’re all turing machines, no but it’s interesting stuff

http://www.nature.com/news/2008/080411/full/news.2008.751.ht...

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Re:Blindsight: Some people who have lost their vision find a... by KingMob on Monday September 28, 2015 @02:18PM (#10292006)

My old labmate works with them as a post-doc now.

I would argue that most of what we do is automatic, and we are quite good at post-facto rationalizing our decisions.

BUT, I would also argue that consciousness allows us to make fully-conscious decisions, so we are not 100% automatic.

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