Thursday, December 15, 2011

Are we controlled by machines... wireless?

I discovered this strange experiment by Professor Patrick Haggard from Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, London.
So far, some micro-parts of the brain can be excited with direct electric impulses, in this way it's possible to control some parts of the body (and, in a certain way, someone could say it's also possible to "touch the emotions").

What if the control of the brain can occur "wireless"?
Professor Patrick Haggard seem sure: "We certainly don't have free will". In the following links there are a lot of discussions about these philosophical and neuroscientific topics.

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And also this: Patrick Haggard The Neuroscience of Human Will Patrick Haggard


The problem of free will in philosophy