Source
Kane (2009), LIT-1984, pp. 39–41; read in NOTE-1518.
What was actually shown
Nothing empirical. The paper states: “There is tension and uncertainty in our minds about what to do at such times, I suggest, that is reflected in appropriate regions of our brains by movement away from thermodynamic equilibrium—in short, a kind of ‘stirring up of chaos’ in the brain that makes it sensitive to micro-indeterminacies at the neuronal level” (p. 39), and adds two crossing recurrent networks carrying the competing motives (p. 40).
What this does not say
- That such sensitivity gives control. Kane concedes it lessens control (p. 43; THEORY-1328).
- That the indeterminacy is all endogenous. The account needs it to be (NOTE-1518, Bearing).