#philosophy #consciousness
~ Fictitious will ~
Consciousness is the state of an individual that is consciously experienced by the individual and can be reported verbally. The so-called will, however, is determined by unconscious brain processes. The conscious will alone cannot bring about any action, but the cortex of the brain is involved in unconscious functions and the so-called will then arises subsequently on the basis of biochemical, non-experienced and previous processes in the brain. The main players in decision-making in the human brain are the limbic system, the hippocampus as the unconscious organiser of declarative memory and the so-called basal ganglia. The argument that the will has a kind of veto function in the initiation of actions, which leads to an action initiated by the brain being cancelled, is also determined in advance by unconscious algorithms. The fictitious possibility of a veto is also only made available to the conscious mind afterwards
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