On Michael Gazzaniga’s book, “Who’s in Charge? Free Will and the Science of the Brain”

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University of Victoria philosophy professor Jeffrey Foss, himself author of a book called Science and the Riddle of Consciousness: A Solution, reviewed this recent book by scientific researcher Michael Gazzaniga in Saturday's Canadian newspaper, The Globe and Mail. Gazzaniga's book looks at the ancient question of whether or not humans have free

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hey, thanks for sharing this. the split-brain phenomenon is something that i'd never heard or thought of before.

It's quite amazing how these modules make us identify the thoughts and actions of our brain as our own, even when the cause is known to be external control of our brain via transcranial magnetic stimulation. It's quite amazing, that is, to think that our sense of self is achieved by some dozens of such modules working in loose formation with one another -- in the absence of any real self at all.my personal experiences through meditation and states of consciousness has brought me recently to DMT, which at present i'm fascinated with (hear that, google?). the information you have here kind of goes along that same stream, hinting at a curious lacking of true "selfness," even though no matter how many times i read it, hear it or metaphysically experience it, there is some thin membrane in me that rattles about, insisting that i AM a self. is that membrane, so to speak, the defense mechanism of the brain? there are all kinds of