The Philosophy Discussion Forum

Any developed human brain has mechanisms to correct,control,reorganise or transform itself. They indicate a freewill of brain. Transformation is control or change of nature.When brain undertakes transformation,it sets its own goals and persues them through an inner reorganisation.The transformation ...

consciousness is same. -------------------------------- I understand consciousness as self-awareness of mental state created by conditioned neurons. The conditioning differs with individuals.So we expect differences in experiences including qualia .These differing experiences are fully represented i...

I believe self is to be understood as the collection of all mental states of any individual excluding the contributions from his conditioned mind and the real self is the collection of all mental states including those contributions . So self-knowledge is the understanding of the real self . And bot...

Conscious activity of brain processes 1.contributions from external object as stimuli and 2.contributions from the nature of the individual as reaction to stimuli. The integrated activity is the function of any brain to produce finally the object in consciousness. We refer to that simply as object. ...

chaz wyman -------------------- I am highlighting that the self-regulating feature (SRF ) of brain gives an opportunity to the rational individual to alter his nature at each instance of exposure. The choice coming through SRF no doubt is determined; but if it prevails over other choices then it bec...

. I have these views on free will. Our normal ideas of causal processes are 1. When there is a single cause ,the causal process is straight forward to its effect 2. When there are multiple causes ,all causes participate in a single causal process to produce its effect. But in the brain,I understand,...

Neuro-science has shown that decisions are made by the brain before a conscious choice has been registered. What science says is true. The contention that "what science says is true", is extremely dubious, if not outright false. If you take the position that observations are accurately de...

[My thinking on self-adaptation : * Self-adaptation is adaptation to social environment achieved through changes in self. * All influences involved in decision making are inputs to neuronal processes of brain.The competing processes bring out the outcome decision. * If it is foreseen that this deci...

So,if we are smart enough to create new reasons then we have free will. Is "self-adaptations to situations" a symbol of free will? Not a good argument. oxygen and iron make rust. neither oxygen nor iron need a free will to do this. 2 ideas make a new idea in the same way My thinking on se...

So,if we are smart enough to create new reasons then we have free will.

Is "self-adaptations to situations" a symbol of free will?