Re:Am I Introverted, or Just Rude?
by colechristensen on Saturday September 24, 2016 @11:44PM
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There are two takeaways from modern neurology which are opposite and surprising.
One is along the lines of what you say, a truly shocking amount of what you might think is free conscious will is actually just machinery deterministically reacting to stimuli. Conversely, it's surprising how plastic that machinery is, it can be formed and reshaped to be wholly different through conscious thought and action.
There's a lot of unscientific woo about what you should do with food to make you healthy and most of it is baseless chatter, but there's pretty strong evidence that there _is_ something there even if we're not sure how to control it. Not just food though... exercise, light, meditation, the people you are around, the smell of the air, and a million other things all have influence over that machinery and manipulating them can manipulate you.
One is along the lines of what you say, a truly shocking amount of what you might think is free conscious will is actually just machinery deterministically reacting to stimuli. Conversely, it's surprising how plastic that machinery is, it can be formed and reshaped to be wholly different through conscious thought and action.
There's a lot of unscientific woo about what you should do with food to make you healthy and most of it is baseless chatter, but there's pretty strong evidence that there _is_ something there even if we're not sure how to control it. Not just food though... exercise, light, meditation, the people you are around, the smell of the air, and a million other things all have influence over that machinery and manipulating them can manipulate you.