(December 11, 2018 at 2:04 pm)The__Chameleon Wrote: If decisions are made in the brain before we are conscious of having made them, then "we" didn't make them, our brains did this unconsciously, just like processing visual information to identify an object. If we (our conscious self) can't take credit for having made a given choice, then we attribute this choice to an unconscious process. Unconscious processes are natural processes since a vital component of intelligence (as many would define it) is conscious choice. Without it there is no distinction from any autonomic response in the body.
Processes that are not directly accessible to the conscious are still part of who we are, as are the other functions. I lean towards the idea that our conscious mind is not actually in control of anything and is simply an observer of the results produced by the underlying levels of the brain and that those levels are what really constitute "me". "I" still made the decisions. As Hitchens said, I don't have body, I AM a body.
