Every Atom In Your Body

Those With Anton's Syndrome Are Not Pretending They Are Not Blind; They Truly Believe They Are Not Blind. Their Verbal Reports, While Inaccurate, Are Not Lies. Instead, They Are Experiencing What They Take To Be Vision, But It Is All Internally Generated.

The Brain Internally Simulates What Will Happen If You Were To Perform Some Action Under Specific Conditions. Internal Models Not Only Play A Role In Motor Acts (such As Catching Or Dodging) But Also Underlie Conscious Perception.

This Is The Hallmark Of A Robust Biological System: Political Parties Can Perish In A Tragic Accident And The Society Will Still Run, Sometimes With Little More Than A Hiccup To The System. It May Be That For Every Strange Clinical Case In Which Brain Damage Leads To A Bizarre Change In Behavior Or Perception, There Are Hundreds Of Cases In Which Parts Of The Brain Are Damaged With No Detectable Clinical Sign.

What We Find Is That Our Brains Have Colossal Things Happening In Them All The Time.

If Choices And Decisions Derive From Hidden Mental Processes, Then Free Choice Is Either An Illusion Or, At Minimum, More Tightly Constrained Than Previously Considered.