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Who am I? (See details)

Asked by ETpro (34605points) November 1st, 2010

New brain research shows that people can control single neurons buried deep in the center of the brain, in a region previously thought to be outside the arena of the conscious mind. In experimentation on intractable epilepsy, researchers embedded electrodes in a brain at locations where they thought the seizures might be coming from. As they were waiting for a seizure to occur, they took the opportunity to look further at what these electrodes could tell us about conscious control of individual neurons.

Watch the video clip and you will see that it actually poses the above question. If, as the research shows, we can control down to the individual neuron and use if as a complex computer to analyze visual images and map them to specific memories, who is doing the controlling? Who or what is the “I” doing the control of my individual neurons?

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