Human Intelligence is an Illusion

[The__Chameleon]

What the difference between the subconscious and conscious thought?  About a fraction of a millisecond of lag. The speed of thought. Everything has a speed limit.

The latency is not a fraction of a millisecond.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j4Oyi1T-HmU

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"Recently, we demonstrated using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) that the outcome of free decisions can be decoded from brain activity several seconds before reaching conscious awareness."

https://journals.plos.org/plosone/articl...ne.0021612

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Allow me to use an allegory. There's an elephant and a mirror. When the elephant first looks in the mirror he sees what he thinks is another elephant and thinks (for the sake of argument) "there's a handsome elephant". He attributes the quality of handsomeness to be possessed by another elephant. After examining this phenomenon more closely he comes to discover that it is not another elephant that he sees as "handsome" (and I am translating from elephant here, lol) but in fact himself, and he thinks, "I am a handsome elephant". The illusion of free will is like the converse of this scenario. What we see as being ourselves (our conscious being or ability to choose freely) is a reflection of something behind us pulling our proverbial strings. Deterministic evolutionary processes have programmed our brains and actively drive the decisions we make well before those choices enter the realm of conscious awareness and we (our conscious sense of self) take false credit for initiating those processes. We look at the resolved decisions made and think "I am an intelligent being" but the mirror is angled toward the evolutionary processes that make our choices for us seconds in advance. If we recognize this we must then correct our assertion by thinking "There is an intelligent being". For what is the conscious self if not the initiator of the choice? Cogito, Ergo sum is invalidated. There is no "I" in the conscious self-deterministic sense.