Brain plasticity alone though defeats a lot of those notions. We
_believe_ that somehow, mathematically, it may someday be
possible to accurately predict every choice we will ever make.
But I don't think so. I believe the study is worth while, but as
a species, if we begin believing that our choices are ultimately
hard-wired, we run into a dangerous situation of lack of
culpability. We already are starting to see signs of that in the
courts systems around the world.
We're patterning our conceptualizations about the mind based
upon machinery forgetting that we have it backwards. We have
patterned the machinery based upon a limited understanding of
our own cognitive processes.
In short, the brain is not like a computer. The computer is like
a brain.
