Brain - an organ of soft nervous tissue contained in the skull of vertebrates, functioning as the coordinating center of sensation and intellectual and nervous activity.
Mind - the element of a person that enables them to be aware of the world and their experiences, to think, and to feel; the faculty of consciousness and thought.
So, the mind and brain are considered two different things. The brain is an organ that primarily facilitates function. Where the mind is our consciousness, or are awareness really.
But are they two different units completely. Is mind to be considered in the brain, or are they indubitably linked together by force or the act of life.
I have recently came across some research in a book I was reading explaining the length of time it takes for us to act upon something and also become consciously aware of our actions.
The basic test was conducted by having a touch stimulus on a patients skin. They wanted to see how long it took for it to reach the brain as an electrical signal. A button was also to be pushed as soon as the patient noticed the touch. And the recognition of their awareness to the touch.
The results determined, it took 0.0001 seconds for the brain to register the electrical signal, a time of 0.1 seconds to press the button. And amazingly it took 0.5 seconds for the person to have awareness of the act.
Interesting, our sense of perception of what occurred is 0.4 seconds after we touched the button to notice and 0.4999 seconds after the brain received the information of the touch stimulus.
This study intrigued some other researchers who decided to take it another step and measure the brain for signals sent after patients were told to contract muscles. Amazingly again, the brain was sending signals to the muscle that was to be contracted 1.5 seconds before the patient decided to move their muscle, such as lifting a finger or flexing a bicep.
So, all this information could make us ponder, is there such thing as free will. I mean this kinda of sounds like we are already making and acting upon decisions or movements before we even consciously become aware of the choice.
Does this mean that many things occur in our life by an action outside ourselves. Something the brain seems to be giving the delusions of us being our deciders. Even some studies show that we only identify 50% of what comes in our vision part of the time. Our brains are adding the other 50% of information, the eyes don't see the brain does.
It seems as though our behavior is being dictated before we even realize. If that's the case, where is the mind or consciousness coming from. Surely we are the creator of our own reality.
How can we be taking action upon us and the things around us without first being the person to determine the operation.
Maybe the mind is outside the body, able to encapsulate the entirety of our physicality and brain. A higher form of consciousness that is in the process of creating the reality we see.
Well, then does anything occur how we actually want it to go. Or is it just our tricked perception of what is already set to occur. Could this illusion we perceive be like that of watching a movie. With all its timing of events predetermined, no action necessarily a direct component of OUR free will.
If that were to be true. Where is our rulings in all this experience?
I am in no way saying I think we have no free will in our actions. But maybe there is some higher engineering in the heart of all this information. Even if we are to be the master engineers, just seeing things from....I guess you could say, Human perception.
Has there ever been a time, maybe you committed an embarrassing mistake, or made a small feat of heroism. Then thought to yourself, wow that is not how I intended that to go.
Well, maybe your correct in that saying.
I ask, do all decisions come directly from us or could some of these already been destined by us and our fellow people long ago set to play out at a determined point in the existence of the universe?
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