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Kevin Mitchell
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Excellent article by @BaharGholipour showing how a famous experiment cited as an argument against free will shows no such thing
@BaharGholipour In Libet's experiments, he asked people to lift their finger basically at random. They freely decided to obey that instruction but it is no surprise that they effectively let the accumulation of random signal in their brains decide when
@BaharGholipour Recent experiments by @LiadMudrik1 and colleagues show that when a person is making a deliberative decision, the famous readiness potential is not seen: biorxiv.org/content/10.110…
@BaharGholipour @LiadMudrik1 In short, nothing we know from neuroscience rules out free will. ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29961596
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