Re:Think You're Operating on Free Will? Think Again
by eirene on Friday July 02, 2010 @03:59PM
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I'm digging the fact that scientists are finally catching up with the meta-humanity thinkers & tinkerers (philosophers, artists, writers, etc) i.e. unconscious will can be & has been extrapolated from first principles, i.e. this is old news. Still, exciting!
1) Rigors-of-academic-inquiry(oldnews) = new data = new model = new algorithms
2) Makes moving my research forward that much easier. Similar case: I went from getting an orders of magnitude brush-off from a theoretical physicist on the topic of string configurations and cellular-level biochemical reactions. A few years later, I see he is working with David Albert on Subjective Experience as a Window on
Foundational Physics http://www.ctnsstars.org/enews/news_team5.html
Embodied cognition, ghosts in biological machines, feels a bit like racing toward god. I can see how it can make some people feel uncomfortable. Still, it's what we're made to do, what the amalgam of our biology+experience gifts us with.
1) Rigors-of-academic-inquiry(oldnews) = new data = new model = new algorithms
2) Makes moving my research forward that much easier. Similar case: I went from getting an orders of magnitude brush-off from a theoretical physicist on the topic of string configurations and cellular-level biochemical reactions. A few years later, I see he is working with David Albert on Subjective Experience as a Window on Foundational Physics http://www.ctnsstars.org/enews/news_team5.html
+ the recent the quantum entanglement in DNA paper on arxiv http://www.technologyreview.com/blog/arxiv/25375/...
Embodied cognition, ghosts in biological machines, feels a bit like racing toward god. I can see how it can make some people feel uncomfortable. Still, it's what we're made to do, what the amalgam of our biology+experience gifts us with.