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One problem is that, at least for certain actions, you can measure that motor neurons fire (somewhere in the order of 100ms) before the part of your brain that thinks it makes executive decisions.

At least for certain actions and situations, the "direct experience" of free will is measurably incorrect.

Doesn't mean free will doesn't exist (or myabe it does), but it's been established that that feeling of "I'm willing these actions to happen" often times happens well after the action has been set into motion already.




Starting at 1:12:35 in this video, there is a discussion of those experiments with an academic neuroscientist. He explains why he believes they do not disprove free will.

https://youtu.be/X6VtwHpZ1BM


Oh, thank you for this :) Because I won't deny, a friend originally came to me with this theory and it has been bugging me :)




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