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I am interested in learning more about hypnotism and how this could explain more about the programmed reality. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ugzcpnPR4YA
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think that is real?
the idea is certainly another hypothesis to add to the list of possible programmed reality constructs. we have neural simulation, utility fogs, molecular assemblers, and now hypnotic virtual reality. thanks for the post!
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also, if it is not staged, this reminds me a little of Stanley Milgram's infamous obedience experiment. what does it say about human nature?
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Yes, the Milgram experiment. I have run across that before in my studies.
Oh! And do not confuse belief with a positive or negative result. You can believe something to be false, just as easily as believing it to be true. Likewise, the ever elusive and non-deterministic approach to free-will is by definition at odds with itself. Authors who balance themselves on the edge of this razor will always either cut themselves or fall to one side of the edge or the other. For more reading on non-deterministic free-will, the following suggested reading will adequately explore the topic:
Wegner, Daniel M. The Illusion of Conscious Will, MIT Press (2002) ISBN 0262731622
Wilson, Timothy D, Strangers to Ourselves: Discovering the Adaptive Unconscious, Harvard University Press (2002) ISBN 0674013824
Wegner, Daniel M., White Bears and Other Unwanted Thoughts , Guilford Press (1989) ISBN 898622239
Hassin, Ran R., The New Unconscious (Social Cognition and Social Neuroscience), Oxford University Press (2005) ISBN 0195149955
Freeman, Anthony, The Volitional Brain : Towards a Neuroscience of Free Will, Imprint Academic (1999) ISBN 0907845118
Libet, Benjamin, Mind Time: The Temporal Factor in Consciousness, Harvard University Press (2004) ISBN 0674013204
Honderich, Ted, How Free Are You?: The Determinism Problem, Oxford University Press (2002) ISBN 0199251975
Evatt, Chris, The Myth of Free Will, Cafe Essays (2007) ISBN 97809708181-7-1
Demasio, Antonio, Descartes' Error: Emotion, Reason, and the Human Brain, Putnam Berkley Group (1994), ISBN 0399138943
Metzinger, Thomas, Being No One: The Self-Model Theory of Subjectivity, MIT Press (2003) ISBN 0262134179
Of course I haven't read all of these, but have looked at their summaries and contents. They all seem to say that we humans actually have no free will.
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