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Welcome back to the Alien Space Sheep Talk Show podcast.
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In case you’re just joining us, you’re listening to the Alien Space Sheep Talk Show podcast
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with Emma Hickins and Travel Gear.
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Categorically, that and specific experiments allowing further time lapse, that where we were
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asked to make a decision on something a picture we see or whatever, in turns out the brain
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has already made our choice, before we’re conscious of that choice.
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And there’s many experiments which scientists have done to prove this point.
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Our brain is such an incredible thing.
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It’s managing all of our systems.
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It’s something we can’t describe as brilliance.
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But actually it makes probably neuroscientists believe 95% of the decisions which we make.
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And if you think about it, that is almost obvious.
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And I stick with this because it is related.
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We get up in the mornings, now we all have different lives, we have different things to do.
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Some will get up, they’re going to go to work.
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But first they’ll have a cup of tea or cup of coffee.
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Now they may say to themselves, “I want to see your coffee.”
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I suspect most of us, we go through the motions, we’re simply spending the first thing in
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the morning on autopilot as we do much of the day.
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So we have our coffee or tea, we have our cereal perhaps on toast.
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And we’re not really consciously making decisions because probably we’ve made those decisions
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a thousand times.
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That’s just what we do.
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It’s autopilot.
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We then go out, we may be going to work, we may not be.
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But whatever we do, we may get in the car.
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It’s all autopilot.
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And so it goes on through the day.
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Now, how many times during the day will we make decisions?
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Well, we will make decisions.
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Do I cross the road at this point or not?
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Do I turn left of this junction?
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Is that quicker?
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Because there’s traffic up ahead.
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We make in micro decisions really, but the brain itself is probably leading us on.
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Now, my next question then, on this free will, if you think we have free will, do you have
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free will as to what your next thought will be?
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Can you control your thoughts?
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What thoughts you’re going to have in the next thought?
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Especially if you’re not okay.
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If you’re focusing on something specific, then as we do, we’re reading a book or we’re
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looking at a particular subject, then that’s going to kind of lead one thought into the next.
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Well, I might do this.
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Might do that.
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But when we’re just sitting there, perhaps not really thinking about much, you might be sitting,
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having a drink by looking out to the sea, if you buy the seaside or whatever, just not
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really thinking anything, can you control what thoughts will come into your head?
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Or are they just planted there?
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Where do they come from?
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So if we’ve got the free will to control our thoughts, our thinking.
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That’s a very good question.
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I’ll let Geron go first.
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Are you talking about me?
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Yeah.
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Yeah, Geron, yeah.
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Okay.
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Can you just refresh again?
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Just the question.
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Yeah.
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Okay.
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We’re talking about our thoughts.
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Right?
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We said already we kind of live in our head.
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Don’t we?
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Yeah.
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Okay.
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That’s, that’s, that’s, that’s, that’s, that’s, that’s, that’s, that’s, that’s, it gets to some
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extent, yeah.
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You, you, you, you can’t control what comes from within, yeah.
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But at the same time, taking, taking the action, before you take the action, you can decide
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not to go with the thoughts.
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Okay.
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Let me just, let me just, a weird example, yeah.
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Just wake up in the morning.
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Oh.
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You don’t have milk at home.
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No job, nothing.
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Oh.
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I could go to the store.
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Nick one.
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You understand?
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Yeah.
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That fulfills the desire.
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But I said, fine, you could drink up.
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Why would that go shop, please?
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That’s not part of me.
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Then you control that thought.
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You understand?
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So that’s, that’s what I can say.
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You can’t really, um, the time what would come to your mind at certain points, because you
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might be in a, in a, depends on the mood, you might be angry, angry, and at that point, lots
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of stuff will come to mind.
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You can’t really control them, but the action you think you can control.
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That’s the way I see it.
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Yeah.
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And I think what you’ve said there, absolutely, tell is with what a lot of eminent scientists
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do say, and it’s quite an interesting point, because one, one very important part of living
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in a society, a society has to have rules, regulations, because otherwise, if people are
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a…
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We’re going to take a short break now, we’re back shortly.
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