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Published online 7 May 2009 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news.2009.454
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I think therefore I move?
Researchers pinpoint a brain area that controls the desire to move.
We control our actions by generating desires and plans. But the process of generating these intentions, known as volition, has been hard to study.
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RE: More research on "Intentionality," "Attentionality," Consciousness, etc. -- I thought the renowned Canadian neurosurgeon Wilder Penfield (1891-1976) had pioneered all these experiments in the 1950s, in his epileptic patients before!? Furthermore, as Dehaene says "in order to make progress on the front of consciousness," we must now begin to delineate and qualify the more specific mechanisms of "thinking" as well as "acting" (or the memory of thinking of acting, as "intentionality" or "attentionality," as referenced above). All these questions and observations of the intricate and dynamic brain-mind interactions must now require a new formulation of the Theory of Mind (or the "thought-memory" theory of consciousness to be more scientifically and philosophically defined) as one that has had integrated all the delicate mechanisms of our "thought and memory" systems in our brain; and one that has had been extensively and empirically characterized, localized, and defined as "memophorescenicity" as the brain-mind quantum panorama of our consciousness, in my seminal book "Gods, Genes, Conscience" (linked below; please see Chapter 15: The Universal Theory of Mind, in general; and Chapter 15.4: Memory Modulation and Recall: A New Hypothesis of Psychic Imagery, Perceptivity, Creativity, and Reflectivity, in particular). Best wishes, Mong 5/8/9usct3:07p; author "Decoding Scientism" and "Consciousness & the Subconscious" (works in progress since July 2007), "Gods, Genes, Conscience" (2006: http://www.iuniverse.com/bookstore/book_detail.asp?isbn=0595379907 ) and "Gods, Genes, Conscience: Global Dialogues Now" (blogging avidly since 2006: http://www2.blogger.com/profile/18303146609950569778 ).