Brains, the Final Frontier

I've thought for years that conscious attention is only a tiny fraction of our consciousness. Turns out I may be right. 

Check out this article on the decision making process.

Fishing in the stream of consciousness, researchers now can detect our intentions and predict our choices before we are aware of them ourselves. The brain, they have found, appears to make up its mind 10 seconds before we become conscious of a decision -- an eternity at the speed of thought. 

Their findings challenge conventional notions of choice. "We think our decisions are conscious," said neuroscientist John-Dylan Haynes at the Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience in Berlin, who is pioneering this research. 

"But these data show that consciousness is just the tip of the iceberg. This doesn't rule out free will, but it does make it implausible."

Slave to the Gods Redux

Well, the day job has been the day, night and weekend job lately which is why posting has been light. But at the same time hours spent at the computer makes me a captive audience for all kinds of inputting- audiobooks, podcasts, movies and various video ephemera, as well as all kinds of Victoria narrations and bedstand reading.

Nightmares in Camelot, Part 1: The Outer Limits

In my previous post I'd mentioned how the prospect of doing The Outer Limits justice was too much for me at the moment, given my current responsibilities.