The article doesn't say though. Some neuroscientists argye that the initiation of action may preceed the initation of the perception of "willing it":
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N...
If that is the case, it could be there's a method of forcing movement that would be perceived as your own actions.
It could be that every action you've ever taken fits that description of forced movement. Forced by the way your genes built you, or the way your environment influenced the build, or by the resident influence of memes.
From a certain perspective, a social organism is just the interface between genes and memes. Both use you to replicate, both often fool you into thinking a threat to them is also a threat to you.
"I too have been a close observer of the doings of the Bank of the United States. I have had men watching you for a long time, and am convinced that you have used the funds of the bank to speculate in the breadstuffs of the country. When you won, you divided the profits amongst you, and when you lost, you charged it to the bank. You tell me that if I take the deposits from the bank and annul its charter I shall ruin ten thousand families. That may be true, gentlemen, but that is your sin! Should I let you go on, you will ruin fifty thousand families, and that would be my sin! You are a den of vipers and thieves. I have determined to rout you out, and by the Eternal, (bringing his fist down on the table) I will rout you out!
-Andrew Jackson
Or, he thinks his target audience is better convinced by the specter of demons than by a rational argument.
“In theory, theory and practice are the same. In practice, they are not.”
Albert Einstein
it's time for a new branch of the military.
Whistle blower = Bank Robber??
Same thing is happening among the cane toads spreading from one side of Austrailia to the other. The fastest ones on the frontier only mate with each other, making super fast cane toads.
Eric Holder gave a televised interview in which he credited a whistle blower at a bank for allowing the bank executives to be held to account for their part in making money off liar's loans. The reporter missed the obvious follow-up question to Holder, "So whistleblowers are good?"
Jumping building to building in VR... Do these things have an EKG?
then they have nothing to worry about!
The consciousness of the future will not be like that of today, same as the consciousness of today is not like that of yesterday. But it may still call itself "human."
Counter point: Star Trek needed a universe in which they could tell not just one dystopian story, but a new one every week, by visiting a planet that went off the rails in one of the same ways we might.
"Remember, extremism in the nondefense of moderation is not a virtue." -- Peter Neumann, about usenet
