accenture Posted August 12, 2011 Share Posted August 12, 2011 Please advice on the appropriate forum to post the question below; it's from the new GRE PowerPrep. In the early 1980's neuroscientists studying the brain processes underlying our sense of conscious will compared subjects' judgments regarding their subjective will to move (W) and actual movement (M) with objective electroencephalographic activity called readiness potential, or RP. As expected, W preceded M: subjects consciously perceived the intention to move as preceding a conscious experience of actually moving. This might seem to suggest an appropriate correspondence between the sequence of subjective experiences and the sequence of the underlying events in the brain. But researchers actually found a surprising relation between subjective experience and objectively measured neural events: in direct contradiction of the classical conception of free will, neural preparation to move (RP) preceded conscious awareness of the intention to move (W) by hundreds of milliseconds Based on information contained in the passage, which of the following chains of events would most closely conform to the classical conception of free will? A: W followed by RP followed by M B: RP followed by W followed by M C: M followed by W followed by RP D: RP followed by M followed by W E: RP followed by W and M simultaneously Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
godlesschum Posted August 12, 2011 Share Posted August 12, 2011 Will should come first before any bodily stuff. If it's truly your choice, your body should only be reacting to what your mind tells it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GREedy Posted August 22, 2011 Share Posted August 22, 2011 "neural preparation to move (RP) preceded conscious awareness of the intention to move (W) by hundreds of milliseconds." This makes it sound like RP is before W. What am I missing here? Is (W) 'intention to move' rather than 'conscious awareness of the intention to move?' Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
raviram80 Posted June 4, 2012 Share Posted June 4, 2012 what is the answer here? thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dosth Posted June 5, 2012 Share Posted June 5, 2012 Answer A..... will be my best bet what is the answer here? thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dosth Posted June 5, 2012 Share Posted June 5, 2012 lemme know if u need explanation Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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