As I’ve told y’all time and again, you ought to be listening to Radio Lab:
[audio:https://monocultured.com/blog/blog_uploads/2008/07/finger-wiggling.mp3]The above clip is from the episode on stress, but it offhandedly dismisses a great chunk of our free will by a small experiment. I had to listen to it thrice before going “oh” and “shit” and then telling my friends of this story while drunk and not able to convey the meaning.
I mean, seriously? our conscious selves are ad hoc rationalisations of our bodies’ behaviour? How is that not awesome and neat in how it turns our self image on its head?
