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oskarkv on July 25, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: Accidental Genius: How To Think

This is kind of interesting. Where does your thoughts come from? If I asked you to think of a famous person, and say the first person that comes to your mind, what determines whom you will think of? Presumably you were not thinking of a person before I asked. Did you have any choice in what person you started thinking about?

ThomPete on July 25, 2011 [–]

The point is that I am going to mention someone I know, not someone I don't know.

But yes one of the questions is whether you have a truly free will (my guess is no)

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