[freebeard]

Originally Posted by redpoint5

Looks like a pretty good loophole.

The IF-THEN statement was the loophole.

A decision may involve impulsiveness, but is a decision nothing but impulsiveness? If so, why does acting as if it doesn't (we all behave as if it doesn't) end up being very useful? My belief is both in ballistics and in course correction. Seemingly and paradoxically incompatible, but then the (poorly described) theory suffers no greater than any other theory.

We are driven by our appetites.

exploringthemind.com: Brain Scans Can Reveal Your Decisions 7 Seconds Before You “Decide”

In the study, participants could freely decide if they wanted to press a button with their right or left hand.

The only condition was that they had to remember when they made the decision to either use their right hand or left hand.

Using fMRI, researchers would scan the brains of the participants while all of this was going on in order to find out if they could in fact predict which hand the participants would use BEFORE they were consciously aware of the decision.

By monitoring the micro patterns of activity in the frontopolar cortex, the researchers could predict which hand the participant would choose 7 SECONDS before the participant was aware of the decision.

“Your decisions are strongly prepared by brain activity. By the time consciousness kicks in, most of the work has already been done,” said study co-author John-Dylan Haynes, a Max Planck Institute neuroscientist.