Ask Mark - Control over the mind?

Ask Mark - Control over the mind? Professor Mark Solms from the University of Cape Town (UCT) a question (see below) posed to him on UCT’s free online course, “What is a Mind?“, hosted by FutureLearn. For more information on visit . If you’d like to comment on any of this video, please e-mail MOOCs@. For more information and queries, visit our Facebook page here: . CC-BY-NC University of Cape Town. Visit for more information on this licence. Question: To what extent do we have control over our mind? I consider that in most situations we have a choice of how to behave. Is that choice limited in any way by external factors? I believe that we are restricted in some ways by previous experience, but can any novel factors determine choice?