Studies Show the Value of Not Overthinking

WSJdpatton writes "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, writes WSJ's Robert Lee Hotz."

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Particles in space

[Anonymous Coward]

I've been thinking about this too much lately.. seems that if the universe started out as a bunch of particles expanding, then we are nothing but a bunch of particles clumped together on a pre-determined path. At least that is my 10 seconds worth...

Re:Particles in space

[linzeal]

I prefer the 3 world theory of Popper. Materialism has been pretty much thoroughly discredited outside of some stubborn old timers who still are preaching it from their decade long tenures in Academia.