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Question: Do you feel like you are braindead? Is your mind deluded by psychotic and paranoid conspiracy theories? Do you actually like and believe conspiracy? Do you feel as you are losing it? Do you feel like you have never really been all there? October is National Brain Injury Awareness month on cdc.gov
Answer: They could but make the best of it, and went around with woebegone faces sadly complaining that on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays they must lool on light as a wave; on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays, as a particle. The answers to these questions are easy only for the dualist, who believes in a mind separate from the brain and who thinks that free will comes from the mind. No evidence for this position can be found, however, and therefore most scientists reject it. The mind (consciousness) is a product of the brain, so if free will can be a driver of movement, we have to be able to find it in the brain. But the EEG showe brain activity in the motor cortex beginning about 1,000 milliseconds before movement could be measured-in other words, earlier than conscious awareness of the intention to move. This early brain activity measured by the EEG probably takes place in the supplementary motor area and premotor cortex in preparation for initiating movement. This experimental result, which has been duplicated many times, appears to indicate that the movement begins unconsciously. This does not jibe with our ordinary sense of how we operate.
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