Here it is,read it and weep.....oh and christof Koch endorses his work...lol and even better, my earlier arguments were on track.
http://now.dartmouth.edu/2013/03/neuros ... free-will/

Ah,I see the site is finally back up.Well I've been busy in OBE land but I'll post this short experience: Funniest entrance to the void ever this morning.I became lucid on a stairway that was reminiscent of grand central station.as I emerged on a platform atop the stairs I spot none other than plast...

Well,I've been lazy about posting here but I wanted to share this because it was so funny to me  ;D The night before last I became lucid in my old neighborhood.(A starting point for most of my LDs and OBEs) I remembered my plan to ask DCs about a terminally ill family friend.There were some on the s...

Breadbassed, Thanks for the compliment.You make interesting points about the unconscious and I kind of relate them to the idea of 'potential consciousness'.Maybe it exists in potential the way energy and fields are thought to have potential-which would be kind of a mind-matter unification too perhap...

I might add that I too enjoy Summerlander's posts here eventhough I disagree on things.He has talents for writing and communication as well as art that I can appreciate.If I come off as combative it is not intentional.It is just that these issues are ones that I am a bit passionate over and these to...

My answer to the original question is that we should be careful about what we say that we 'create'. All we can know is through our sense perceptions and the mind independent existence of any object or environment , 'real' or otherwise can only be an abstraction to us.Cultivating memory and good prac...

Summer, I'm aware of the entropic gravity hypothesis,its one that I like and it is very interesting but other scientists have already claimed to have refuted it.Time will tell. Yes,the universe is real,consciousness and the phase are real aspects of it too.We are part of the universe,we dream,the un...

SL: "Is gravity a tangible object? No.  It is a force.  It exists and it is part of the physical world.  Nothing magical about it." Jeff: Funny you should mention gravity of all things.Forces are communicated by particles.Particles are discrete instances of fields.Fields are regions of spa...

::) "Those who imagine that consciousness of material objects could arise from the effect of some material objects on another particular material object don’t seem to take the notion of matter seriously." ..........."It is magical thinking to imagine that material events in a materi...

It's exactly the same for me too.In fact,the night before last I spent most of my time floating,flying and doing acrobats.It's kind of a sublucid state I think because there is slightly more self reflection with this dream skill than with regular dreaming. Sometimes I become completely lucid this wa...

People do report warnings from dreams or interpretations of dreams.I've,personally,had a few things come true in waking life from dreams and phases,so a 'warning' interpretation is something that I'm open minded to. I'm not saying this is the case,I don't really know.If it was a 'warning' it was a r...

Right. A warning from the subliminal? I think it's possible too...

Yeah,I loved Steven Leberge's ETWOLD ,it was the first book that I was able to get real solid results from-and I had read most of them by then. (around '04) I think there is definitely something to his 'schemas' and I suppose it's possible that debris or sand in this particular phase could have been...

Philip, I understand the burnout from working,from maintaining dream logs and such,believe me. I work at a busy Trauma center and deal with quite alot of stress in addition to raising my daughter.I also have my father to worry about with his health problems.Filling out detailed log books and compute...

To be clear I mean a filmy stuff that creeps over the phase eyes and can show up unexpectedly;not the more common 3D blackness,the void or initial separation blindness.  These can all be dealt with as you say SL.I do the same things you mention too.(just this morning in fact)I never sweat it when I ...

Lets say,in the far future super high resolution brain scanners and nano robotic surgery is perfected;but the mind-brain question still remains and debates rage on over it. You are starting from a hypothetical scenario which is only likely to yield speculative answers.  Also, we don't yet know enou...

Experiment 3

Stimulate the "neural correlates of consciousness" associated with an OBE -Lucid Dream state in the same manor as above.

Question:
What do you think would happen and why?

Here's a thought experiment for fun and discussion: Lets say,in the far future super high resolution brain scanners and nano robotic surgery is perfected;but the mind-brain question still remains and debates rage on over it. http://psychology.wikia.com/wiki/Mind-body_problem (Lets also say that ethi...

Anyone else experience this? A layer of black stuff over the phase eyes sometimes in OBEs ?  ??? Over the years I have dealt with this curiosity by peeling it down or prying my phase eyes open with my phase hands. I've always thought that this is one of the more bizarre things that can happen.Does a...

Same for me.I rarely do stuff like this intentionally.More commonly I'll become lucid in a gentle sleep paralysis and a sensation is already there in progress.Then I just go with it and amplify it. But most times I just kind of know and I 'just get up'. Separation can range from a difficult struggle...

In a couple of my regular phase experiences a few weeks ago, I held still after awakening from normal sleep (indirect techniques) and created the kinetic sensation of laying on a waterbed.(does anyone have those any more anyway?) It worked quite well.Separation was very easy afterward as I floated o...

Hi Bluremi, Sorry to take so long to get back. First let me say that I enjoy this conversation and I'm not a zealot either! This is an interesting topic and, honestly I've never deeply questioned that I have some degree of 'freewill' before now.So researching to counter the con positions here has be...

Bluremi: "Our brain is connected to the environment in both directions: we receive input from our senses, and we then react to the input through our physical bodies. There's no breakdown of cause/effect in either direction as far as mental states go" Jeff: I don't disagree here at all actu...

"there is no agent!"

Do you have the sense of agency?

Bluremi: "You are essentially saying that because all of our "knowledge" of the physical universe is deduced from indirect representations of the universe, i) to make any scientific assertions about the universe at the atomic level is solipsistic and therefore wrong, and ii) therefore...

"with no valid reason for anything that could be called a "preference."

And your own,personal past choices provide no weight? Your subjective desire doesn't exist?

http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/2011/09/19/free-will-and-quantum-clones-how-your-choices-today-affect-the-universe-at-its-origin/ I had already linked to Gisin's video here but this article explains more clearly. To believe you have no free will is to believe in 'superdeterminism' t...

BTW...Libet's RP has been misinterpreted: http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn22144-brain-might-not-stand-in-the-way-of-free-will.html Another blow against material reductionism: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/08/120822181228.htm ""According to previous research, this man shou...

Hi Jeff, Thanks for your post, it cleared up a misunderstanding I had about your argument. It's true that under the assumptions of "physicalism" free will is logically impossible. 1) That said, I think the onus is upon the non-phsyicalism crowd to explain how the mind could be separate fr...

I was the same as a child.It didn't go over well with the people in Sunday school.It was lucky for me that my parents weren't hyper religious and they took me out of it and let me find my own way... :) So I think we can't really know the answer for sure,but I'll tell you where I stand on this at the...