The thing about fundamentalist ideology is that if you are willing to put your ideology above the authentic evidence before your very own eyes, you get something back from that ideology – the feeling that you live in a world that somehow makes sense, even if that sense isn’t based on reality.

The pull of a convincing story about how the world IS trumps the understanding of how the world really IS, every single time.

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Causality and the perception of time
[Does our perception of when an event occurs depend on whether we caused it? A recent study suggests that when we perceive our actions to cause an event, it seems to occur earlier than if we did not cause it.]
http://nba.uth.tmc.edu/homepage/eagleman/papers/EaglemanHolcombeTICS2002.pdf

Conscious intention and motor cognition
[The subjective experience of conscious intention is a key component of our mental life. Philosophers studying ‘conscious free will’ have discussed whether conscious intentions could cause actions, but modern neuroscience rejects this idea of mind–body causation. Instead, recent findings suggest that the conscious experience of intending to act arises from preparation for action in frontal and parietal brain areas. Intentional actions also involve a strong sense of agency, a sense of controlling events in the external world. Both intention and agency result from the brain processes for predictive motor control, not merely from retrospective inference.]
http://www.psychologie.uni-oldenburg.de/hans.colonius/personal%20webpage/courses/seminare/haggard_TCogSci_05.pdf

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follow me into an adventure, accompanied by cheez, sunburn, adrenaline, nik land and chicken

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something worth noting……

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