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And the Messiah cometh in the fulness of time, that he may redeem the children of men from the fall. and because that they are redeemed from the fall they have become free forever, knowing good from evil; to act for themselves and not to be acted upon, save it be by the punishment of the law at the great and last day, according to the commandments which God hath given. ~2 Nephi 2:26
University of California Study Denies Concept of Free Will
Rush Limbaugh
RUSH: By the way, back to free will for a second. These scientists at the University of California-Davis, say there isn’t any. “The concept of free will could be little more than the result of background noise in the brain, according to a recent study. It has previously been suggested that our perceived ability to make autonomous choices is an illusion — and now scientists from the Center for Mind and Brain at the University of California-Davis, have found that free will may actually be the result of electrical activity in the brain.
“According to the research, published in the Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, decisions could be predicted based on the pattern of brain activity immediately before a choice was made. Volunteers in the study were asked to sit in front of a screen and focus on its central point while their brains’ electrical activity was recorded. They were then asked to make a decision to look either left or right when a cue symbol appeared on the screen, and then to report their decision.”
All of this work, all of this research for the express purpose of proving we’re all robots, essentially, and that there is no free will. “We’re not autonomous, we don’t make up our own minds, and therefore we need somebody doing it for us like Obama and the Democrat Party. We need somebody smarter than we are! We need somebody who cares because we’re just not up to the task because we’re all just a bunch of prewired followers,” and they would love it, the more people they could convince of that.
Stop to think about it now. If there’s no free will, there can be no freedom or liberty, right? I’m holding here in my formerly nicotine-stained fingers a story from the UK Independent. Scientists at the University of California Davis found that the concept of free will is actually little more than the result of background noise in the brain. There is no free will. If there’s no free will, then there’s no freedom and there’s no liberty, and it just makes everything easier for tyrants, doesn’t it?
Free will could be the result of ‘background noise’ in the brain, study suggests
The concept of free will could be little more than the result of background noise in the brain, according to a recent study.
It has previously been suggested that our perceived ability to make autonomous choices is an illusion – and now scientists from the Center for Mind and Brain at the University of California, Davis, have found that free will may actually be the result of electrical activity in the brain.
According to the research, published in the Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, decisions could be predicted based on the pattern of brain activity immediately before a choice was made.
Libet asked volunteers to press a switch in response to a visual signal – but whereas he had to rely on the participants telling him when they made their choice, Bengson explained that the random nature of the new study meant that “we know people aren’t making the decision in advance”.
“It inserts a random effect that allows us to be freed from simple cause and effect,” Bengson said.
Know This, That Every Soul is Free
~Anon.
Know this, that every soul is free to choose his life and what he’ll be;
For this eternal truth is given: that God will force no man to heaven.
He’ll call, persuade, direct aright, and bless with wisdom, love, and light,
In nameless ways be good and kind, but never force the human mind.
Freedom and reason make us men; take these away, what are we then?
Mere animals, and just as well the beasts may think of heaven or hell.
May we no more our powers abuse, but ways of truth and goodness choose;
Our God is pleased when we improve His grace and seek his perfect love.
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