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Originally Posted by Wired magazine. Regardless, the findings raise profound questions about the nature of self and autonomy: How free is our will? Is conscious choice just an illusion? |
That's
assuming the brain is the origin of consciousness.
Western science will always dig a hole for itself. No matter how many chunks they cut out of a rat's brain, they can't reduce it's memory to perform tasks.*
Mabbe they should pay closer attention to what they discover, instead of mauling rats, eh?
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In a series of landmark experiments in the 1920s, brain scientist Karl Lashley found that no matter what portion of a rat's brain he removed he was unable to eradicate its memory of how to perform complex tasks it had learned prior to surgery.