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Letter: That unconscious stuff is you too

Published 3 August 2016

From Yadviga Halsey

Clare Wilson reports a new study of the unconscious brain events that signal a movement before the decision to make it (2 July, p 10). Why deny that this brain event is “yours”? Surely your brain activity that takes place out-of-consciousness belongs to you? Perhaps if we took seriously the Buddha's view that consciousness is a sense we would better deal with the question of will.

Seattle, Washington, US

Issue no. 3085 published 6 August 2016

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