Are there questions that science can't answer but...

[LogosSteve]

That's just it right there, any scientist who would propose that thoughts somehow occur before chemical reactions or anything in the natural world would be peer reviewed and laughed out of the scientific arena. Thoughts are not magical, they result from physical processes. Every single piece of scientific literature agrees with this point.

 

[lrkun]

That's just it right there, any scientist who would propose that thoughts somehow occur before chemical reactions or anything in the natural world would be peer reviewed and laughed out of the scientific arena. Thoughts are not magical, they result from physical processes. Every single piece of scientific literature agrees with this point.

Can you cite some of those scientific literature? I often need sources of this sort for the book I'm writing. TY

 

[Master_Ghost_Knight]

That's just it right there, any scientist who would propose that thoughts somehow occur before chemical reactions or anything in the natural world would be peer reviewed and laughed out of the scientific arena. Thoughts are not magical, they result from physical processes. Every single piece of scientific literature agrees with this point.

Irrelevant, for us to know, those processe must have occured before you knew it. Therefore your ideas about the subject preceeded your knowledge of what preceedes taught.

 

[kenandkids]

That's just it right there, any scientist who would propose that thoughts somehow occur before chemical reactions or anything in the natural world would be peer reviewed and laughed out of the scientific arena. Thoughts are not magical, they result from physical processes. Every single piece of scientific literature agrees with this point.

Can you cite some of those scientific literature? I often need sources of this sort for the book I'm writing. TY

Here's a helpful place to start.
http://www.oup.com/us/catalog/general/series/OxfordPsychologySeries/?view=usa

 

[lrkun]

Here's a helpful place to start.
http://www.oup.com/us/catalog/general/series/OxfordPsychologySeries/?view=usa

Not helpful. Thanks anyway.

But the website, as a search engine, is useful.

 

[kenandkids]

Here's a helpful place to start.
http://www.oup.com/us/catalog/general/series/OxfordPsychologySeries/?view=usa

Not helpful. Thanks anyway.

But the website, as a search engine, is useful.

So it wasn't helpful but is helpful?
Or the books aren't helpful but the associated material is?

Btw, always read the books, goldmines for all sorts of helpful stuff that websites just don't deliver.

 

[lrkun]

So it wasn't helpful but is helpful?
Or the books aren't helpful but the associated material is?

Btw, always read the books, goldmines for all sorts of helpful stuff that websites just don't deliver.

The books are not related to what I'm looking for.

 

[kenandkids]

So it wasn't helpful but is helpful?
Or the books aren't helpful but the associated material is?

Btw, always read the books, goldmines for all sorts of helpful stuff that websites just don't deliver.

The books are not related to what I'm looking for.

You asked for scientific literature about the chemical processes of the brain as it relates to thought... These are a few of those...

 

[lrkun]

You asked for scientific literature about the chemical processes of the brain as it relates to thought... These are a few of those...

Yes, but it's not related to what I'm looking for.

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A user's guide to the brain by John Ratey <-- something like this

 

[kenandkids]

You asked for scientific literature about the chemical processes of the brain as it relates to thought... These are a few of those...

Yes, but it's not related to what I'm looking for.

Okay, fair enough. Would you tell me what you are looking for? One of the few things I have access to atm is my books. I likely have at least one that is in the topic.

 

[LogosSteve]

Here just watch this video starting at 15:39 in.

Good ol' SisyphusRedeemed throws a couple of easy to understand studies at you that more or less say it's silly to think we can't know what people will think before they think it. He doesn't come out and say it but everything he lays out really makes a strong case that free-will is just an illusion we have trouble letting go of.