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If You Have Certain Problems With Your Brain But Are Raised In A Good Home, You Might Turn Out Okay. If Your Brain Is Fine And Your Home Is Terrible, You Might Still Turn Out Fine. But If You Have Mild Brain Damage And End Up With A Bad Home Life, You're Tossing The Dice For A Very Unlucky Synergy.

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Awareness Of Your Surroundings Occurs Only When Sensory Inputs Violate Expectations. When The World Is Successfully Predicted Away, Awareness Is Not Needed Because The Brain Is Doing Its Job Well.

When One Part Of The Brain Makes A Choice, Other Parts Can Quickly Invent A Story To Explain Why. If You Show The Command "walk" To The Right Hemisphere (the One Without Language), The Patient Will Get Up And Start Walking. If You Stop Him And Ask Why He's Leaving, His Left Hemisphere, Cooking Up An Answer, Will Say Something Like "i Was Going To Get A Drink Of Water."

Our Ignorance Of The Cosmos Is Too Vast To Commit To Atheism, And Yet We Know Too Much To Commit To A Particular Religion. A Third Position, Agnosticism, Is Often An Uninteresting Stance In Which A Person Simply Questions Whether His Traditional Religious Story (say, A Man With A Beard On A Cloud) Is True Or Not True. But With Possibilianism I’m Hoping To Define A New Position - One That Emphasizes The Exploration Of New, Unconsidered Possibilities. Possibilianism Is Comfortable Holding Multiple Ideas In Mind; It Is Not Interested In Committing To Any Particular Story.