h/t to proecotrading in this thread for the article: Free will could be the result of ‘background noise’ in the brain, study suggests

  • Volunteers were asked to sit in front of a screen and focus on its central point while their brains’ electrical activity was recorded.
  • Then asked to make a decision to look either left or right when a cue symbol appeared on the screen
  • The cue to look left or right appeared at random intervals, so the volunteers could not consciously or unconsciously prepare for it
  • The researchers found that the pattern of activity in the brain in the seconds before the cue symbol appeared – before the volunteers knew they were going to make a choice – could predict the likely outcome of the decision.

More at the link (I suppose the noise in yer brain will decide whether to click or not

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). Interesting stuff (I think. Or, I think I think

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