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Comment Complex determinism and local characteristics (Score 1) 244

Subjects use "arbitrary" factors to influence their decisions and they also take into account everything else to varying degrees. The brain "decides" the best it can and that includes relying on things like white matter, memory, and all its input up to, and, including the experiment's demand characteristics.

Assuming arbitrary and erroneous factors are quantitatively qualitatively different; we use all our resources to decide and if some of these factors and the degree they influence us seems arbitrary it is only because the decision process is more complex than we understand.

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