(November 7, 2011 at 6:47 am)tackattack Wrote: Decisions do not have to be made in the conscious portion of the brain, to be choice. Will directs what we focus on, thus limiting out window to the sum of consciousness to the active portion. I would say almsot every decision is made subconsciously prior to conscious recognition. What you're forgetting is that the consciousness and focus (ie. will) can feed back into the subconscious forcing another decision to be made. The mechanism of decision making is mechanical (gathering info, polling senses, fight or flight, etc.), but it's information and commands when necessary to decide (outside of instinctual reflex) come from abstract stimuli (both outside and inside the consciousness).
I think it would be more appropriate to say non-instinctual decisions are initiated by many responces. One of which can be the foci of will. But you'll probably go into all reactions are naturalistic and instictual since you seem to be a pure materialst from what I gather.
"You would say" anything that you feel might support your position. Care to elaborate on this theory of yours? Perhaps link some peer reviewed papers? It's a very active area of study, should be mountains of data if your conclusions could be supported. When you're done arguing that theory we can move on to whatever you want to use it to support eh?
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