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Awareness on ones own thoughts has a natural delay in a time.delayed calculation network.
If you get aware you decided something wrong, you can still check
and correct it, before doing an action.
Yes and no
Honestly I dont remember the details of the test
I read the book 5 years ago
In principle
Scientists asked some people to take a simple decision such as to push a button
"Do it when you want"
As you know some area of the brain are mapped
Nobody knows where coscience is but for sure we know which area of the brain must be activated to move a finger
The results where amazing
all subjects first activated the "finger" area and only a fraction of time after other parts of the brain have been activated
When I was a school I asked my religion teacher this question
If someone was born with killing instincts why should he be punished
He said that the killing instinct come from the body but our soul can stop them
God takes it into account
More or less your explanation which , btw, never convinced me
A better explanation, may be, in my opinion the following, even though Mr Kendal do not mention it
The subjects take a decision to push the button with some time delay then they activate a sort of internal clock
The clock automatically trig the event
