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posted by LaminatorX on Friday July 03 2015, @01:15AM   Printer-friendly
from the actually-old-theory dept.

Consciousness — the internal dialogue that seems to govern one's thoughts and actions — is far less powerful than people believe, serving as a passive conduit rather than an active force that exerts control, according to a new theory proposed by an SF State researcher. Associate Professor of Psychology Ezequiel Morsella.

Morsella and his coauthors' groundbreaking theory, published online on June 22 by the journal Behavioral and Brain Sciences, contradicts intuitive beliefs about human consciousness and the notion of self.

According to Morsella's framework, the "free will" that people typically attribute to their conscious mind — the idea that our consciousness, as a "decider," guides us to a course of action — does not exist. Instead, consciousness only relays information to control "voluntary" action, or goal-oriented movement involving the skeletal muscle system.

http://scienceblog.com/79096/theory-consciousness-free/

Wonder if Edward Bernays would agree with this assessment. Enjoyed watching the very intriguing documentary, The Century of the Self a 2002 British television documentary series by Adam Curtis. It focuses on how the work of Sigmund Freud, Anna Freud, and Edward Bernays influenced the way corporations and governments have analyzed, dealt with, and controlled people.

You can see the documentary: The Century of the Self | Happiness Machines | Episode 1


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  • (Score: 2) by c0lo on Friday July 03 2015, @06:22AM

    by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Friday July 03 2015, @06:22AM (#204572) Journal

    damned? bullshit! i've been doing everything i could to make AI takedown humanity even before i heard of Roko's basilisk. it's you unworthy pro-human/anti-AI humans that are the damned. play for the winning team! :)

    Given the results so far in AI, you are either not intelligent enough or not artificial enough ;P
    (naah!... hands off!... I call bags on "both")

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  • (Score: 2) by Gravis on Friday July 03 2015, @08:34AM

    by Gravis (4596) on Friday July 03 2015, @08:34AM (#204622)

    I call bags on "both"

    your britishness has no effect on me and thusly, i call dibs on E V E R Y T H I N G !

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 03 2015, @10:40AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 03 2015, @10:40AM (#204649)

      your britishness has no effect on me

      It's aussieness [wikipedia.org], you insensitive clod!

      • (Score: 2) by Gravis on Saturday July 04 2015, @07:56AM

        by Gravis (4596) on Saturday July 04 2015, @07:56AM (#204964)

        your britishness has no effect on me

        It's aussieness, you insensitive clod!

        austrailia, you mean the british penal colony? i had no idea you british criminals were so sensitive.