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What Does It Mean the Nervous System to Do Something Deliberately?

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When you do something deliberately, you pay attention. You are bringing your perception to an analysis of three things: duration, path and outcome. And they start ceing to your nervous system. Somethings different now about what i'm doing. Something's different about what I'm feeling. We actually can see examples of what happens when you're not doing this. If you look at young children, they don't have the four braind circuitry to engage in this top down processing until they reach ageo, 22, even 25. It's hard for them sit still because those central pattern generators are constantly going in the background. Whereas adults can sit still. They'll be rocking back and

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