In 1983 Benjamin Libet found that brain activity predicts your movements before you are aware of deciding to move. The result has been reproduced many times, and it has been used ever since to argue that free will is an illusion. Three new papers say the measurements were fine but the interpretation was not. Let’s take a look.
Sources:
Action fluency and conscious intention: being aware of what we are about to do
Undermining Free Will Belief Increases Forgiveness of Self and Others
👉 ((btw www.base-search.net is a great search engine for scientific papers))
There are those who think that
Life has nothing left to chance
A host of holy horrors
To direct our aimless dance
A planet of playthings
We dance on the strings
Of powers we cannot perceive
The stars aren’t aligned
Or the gods are malign
Blame is better to give than receive
You can choose a ready guide in some celestial voice
If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice
You can choose from phantom fears, and kindness that can kill
I will choose a path that’s clear, I will choose free will
Statistically, you’re a guy.