[Soup] Did human free will begin with 'imagination'?

'Sky Kong Kong' in Memories

My youngest son seems to have asked when his father would come back ten times.

She could have been angry, but her mother responded calmly.

Could it be because of the words of the children with big smiles in the TV commercial saying, 'Let's ride the Sky Kong Kong and fly over the clouds together'?

Unlike the first, at the request of the second son in the third grade of elementary school, who usually did not show much concern, the father set the condition of 'all back'.

All-baek is a combination of the English word 'all' and the number 'back'.

Tests in Korean, arithmetic, social studies, and nature subjects, which were called 'domestic lions', were being taken every month at the time.

Yesterday's test results were announced today, and I pressured my mother - I think I'd dozed off about twenty times - to relay the news to my father.

There is a reason he believed his father needed only to know.

The contract with my father had been successfully concluded several years ago.

My father kept his promise to take me to the buffet if I could speak Korean.

Holding my father's hand, I entered the buffet on the first floor of the Ambassador Hotel, which was surrounded by glass walls that seemed to be accessible only by riding Cinderella's pumpkin carriage.

I tried to sleep when I saw my father coming, but it was too late at night.

Raising the blanket over my head, I thought of the silver knives and forks on the round table neatly covered with white cloth in the buffet restaurant.

When the youngest child, who only knew how to read without knowing the meaning of the text, said he wanted to eat Ottogi soup, he imagined that his father, who had served him steak, had Sky Bean Beans in his rough, black hands this time.

Then the bedside became warm.

As if my father's hand, which was always warm, was touching me.

The reaction of the brain when imagining

After installing an MRI of brain function, he showed a picture of a pine tree.

The brain area that captures the blue light of the pine tree, as well as the brain area that detects the fresh scent of pine trees and the brain area that is in charge of appetite were also activated.

Cheolsu must have thought of his mother's songpyeon, which he steamed with pine needles during the Chuseok holiday.

The reason why each person's brain reacts differently to the same picture of a pine tree is because memories and memories are different.

After waiting for the wave the blue pine tree photo caused in Cheol-su's brain to calm down, he asks Cheol-su to close his eyes and imagine a green pine tree photo.

The part of the brain that detects the scent of pine trees and the part of the brain responsible for appetite summoned by the memory of songpyeon were activated as expected.

However, unexpectedly, even the part of the brain responsible for the vision of blue light is activated.

Even with my eyes closed.

This time I tried changing the order.

We ordered Cheolsu to imagine a celebrity first and marked the areas where his brain is activated.

Then, wait until the activated brain is calm, show a real picture of a celebrity, and check the area where the brain is activated.

But the result was the same.

The brain response was the same when I saw the real thing with my eyes and when I imagined the real thing with my eyes closed.

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Imaginative brain responses are not always positive.

The reason for not distributing photos or videos of the Itaewon disaster is to reduce the trauma that people will receive from seeing them.

However, its effect is limited.

This is because the same trauma occurs just by imagining it in your head without looking at the picture or video.

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The beginning of free will is 'imagination'

In my last article, I raised a fundamental question about human free will.

Free will must be within the realm of consciousness, because the brain waves leading to free will started in the unconscious prior to consciousness.

This makes it clear that free will is outside consciousness.

It is only unclear whether free will really does not exist or whether modern brain science has yet to discover it.

Einstein predicted gravitational waves in 1916 through the theory of relativity.

However, he actually observed this in 2017, 101 years later.

It may take more time to actually observe human free will.

However, like the theory of relativity, the 'imagination theory' of free will appeared.

The research team previously found out that the brainwaves of choice occur before consciousness and are linked to breathing and exhalation.

Why did the research team select breathing among numerous variables to study its relationship with free will?

The answer could be guessed from the name of the author listed in the thesis.

The first author was a Korean name that read Park Hyung-dong, and breathing is an important meditation method in Eastern culture, even without invoking a specific religion.

He must have been taught that evening his breathing is what aligns his life, so he must have wondered what the brain waveforms of choice have to do with breathing.

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