UW Neural study on Degrees of Certainty as an Aspect of Decision-Making
"Our findings suggest that when the brain embraces truth, it does so in a graded way so that even a binary [yes/no, true/false, left/right] choice leaves in its wake a quantity that represents a degree of belief. The neural mechanism of decision making doesn't flip into a fixed point, but instead approximates a probability distribution."
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090507141358.htm
posted by JAB at 11:35 AM
3 Comments:
That is totally false.
I used to think correlation implied causation, but then I studied statistics.
You might think studying statistics helps in these cases, but I'm still not sure.
I am 57% certain the Front's comment is deeply hilarious.
As to #2, I still think that studies of consciousness are far too apt to confuse the mechanism for the cause.
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