Very Interesting article! (Iv'e noticed you seem to come up with alot of them Byzantine)
We know that some things/actions are "hard-wired" into the brain. They have pathways inbedded with time and repetition. so is that why we make choices to act incertain ways-kind of like stimulus/responce? So are they saying the stimulus starts in the brain then the responce -thought of action -then action? SO what is the genesis of the thought? (the sixty-four thousand dollar question) Does seing the TV makes some nerve pathways fire that tell us certain actions (sit down, turn on chanel, etc) then we make concious decision/choice? Or was it what we ate at dinner actually what stimualted our brain to think TV/channel beacuse that has been something we have done for years and it is "automatic" or "hard-wired" into our head? I don't know.
And is our"reptilian" brain factor into this somehow? brain tells lungs to breath-we don't "think" about that action, it is an autonomic reflex which is a different pathway, but makes ya wonder. Are we actually working off a different part of the brain that starts this stimulus, then goes to another part that stimulates us then we conciously make choice then action? We can "think" and speed up or slow down our breathing just because we choose to, not because it is a next action we need to take (i. turn on tv, press channel). So does our brain "control us? Boy I wish I remebered more about brain pathopysiology than I do-which is about nil. Wish I was smart about these things too, which I am not. What I do know is we know maybe a tenth of what our brain is capable of. So more will definetly be revealed. I will revisit that article. It offers very preliminary information and thought. And a very small study. But again, very interesting. Thanks!
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