What Does Neuroscience Tell About Free Will? The Libet and Other Experiments, and Interpretations

Introduction and Context: How do you think we “decide” to act? The common sense (and our experience) explanation is we (1)  make a conscious decision to do something (2) our brain activates whatever neuro-pathways are required for the action, the (3) we perform the action.  Libet’s famous experiments give strong evidence showing that this is […]

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