So I explained that most actions need to be actively initiatied
You can also tell him that even a lot of "voluntary" actions have to be actively inhibited, or they would start on their own. In ordinary life we call this "force of habit," where a stimulus just triggers a response without thinking (like when you walk into the bathroom and start putting toothpaste on your toothbrush even though that's not what you meant to do).
People with frontal lobe damage have a real problem with this. They are extremely "stimulus bound," so for example if you put a fork on the table in front of them they may pick it up and make eating motions. The frontal lobes are all about inhibiting all the various behaviors that we
could do in a situation.
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