Category: Free will
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Think! Decide! Think! Decid... STOP! [Harmonia]
Although choosing to do something because the perceived benefit outweighs the financial cost is something people do daily, little is known about what happens in the brain when a person makes these kinds of decisions. Studying how these cost-benefit decisions are made when choosing to consume alcohol, a researcher identified distinct profiles of brain activity…
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Roads...
A strange ribbon of energy and particles at the edge of the solar system first spotted by a NASA spacecraft appears to serve as a sort of "roadmap in the sky" for the interstellar magnetic field, scientists say. By comparing ground-based studies and in-space observations of solar system's mysterious energy ribbon, which was first discovered…
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Fear. Behaviour. Fear. Behaviour.
A team of CSHL scientists have discovered a new neural circuit in the brain that directly links the site of fear memory with an area of the brainstem that controls behavior. Far-reaching neurons in the central amygdala, the location of fear memory in the brain seen here in red (right), directly contact neurons in the…
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Altering your brain. Nothing special.
A mind altering drug could offer a life without the addiction of heroin. [1] First of all, the correct way to put it is to say "A brain altering drug could offer a life without the addiction of heroin". And secondly, how good is to decieve your self by using drugs to alter your will? And…
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Suicides falling. Something to worry about...
Suicide rates are falling in the "civilized" world. [1] Something to be happy about? Or something to worry about? Remember that suicide is the ultimate expression of human freedom. But our society does not leave room for freedom. It dictates what you do and how you do it. That reminds me of Wilhelm Reich... "If you…
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