On 09.01.2017 23:03, David Ongaro wrote: > decisions are normally made subconsciously seconds before we get > aware of them
Essentially nothing is known how to interpret such neurological findings. It is (usually) not like the universe was forcing me unexpected subconscious thinking into my conscious mind. My topic-dependent thinking occurs because I want to be busy thinking about the topic for a long time (such as successive minutes or hours - not seconds as in the tests - during a go game). In such a thinking context, both subconscious and conscious thinking related to the topic occur with countless interactions in both directions (and even occasional level changes of subconscious pieces accessible as conscious, but this is not so interesting, it is like reading in assembler;) ) Now, if some test claims to observe that subconscious thinking preceded conscious thinking, this is like making assumptions of excluding parts of conscious thinking. As if you wanted to deceive Heisenberg's uncertainty relation. Maybe it does play a relevant role in brains. Observation affects perception.
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