{"id":404,"date":"2008-08-01T09:33:53","date_gmt":"2008-08-01T07:33:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/?p=1077"},"modified":"2008-08-01T09:33:53","modified_gmt":"2008-08-01T07:33:53","slug":"free-will-slick-hair-mirrored-building","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/free-will-slick-hair-mirrored-building\/","title":{"rendered":"Free will. Slick hair. Mirrored building."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As I&#8217;ve told y&#8217;all time and again, you ought to be listening to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wnyc.org\/shows\/radiolab\/episodes\/2005\/03\/04\">Radio Lab<\/a>:<\/p>\n[audio:https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/blog_uploads\/2008\/07\/finger-wiggling.mp3]\n<p>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 &#8220;oh&#8221; and &#8220;shit&#8221; and then telling my friends of this story while drunk and not able to convey the meaning.<\/p>\n<p>I mean, <em>seriously?<\/em> our conscious selves are ad hoc rationalisations of our bodies&#8217; behaviour? How is that not awesome and neat in how it turns our self image on its head?<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/blog_uploads\/2008\/07\/spegel-fonster.png\" alt=\"Hus som speglas vid J\u00e4rntorgen\" title=\"spegel-fonster\" width=\"640\" height=\"222\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1071\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/blog_uploads\/2008\/07\/solgralsogon.png\" alt=\"Mateusz provar nya glas\u00f6gon\" title=\"solgralsogon\" width=\"640\" height=\"293\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1070\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I&#8217;ve told y&#8217;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 &#8220;oh&#8221; and &#8220;shit&#8221; and then telling &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/free-will-slick-hair-mirrored-building\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Free will. Slick hair. Mirrored building.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[147,295,351,412,414],"class_list":["post-404","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-doodles","tag-free-will","tag-radio-lab","tag-sunglassess","tag-wtf","tag-you-are-not-yourself"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=404"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}