Unconscious determinants of free decisions in the human brain (2008) [pdf]
I liked this interview with Judea Pearl on free will: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=sg7Oq4suH_E" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=sg7Oq4suH_E</a><p>The summary is basically that to our best knowledge there is no free will because decisions are caused by neural activities which in turn are caused by sensory input and noise (but unlikely by quantum noise). However, humans have evolved a strong sense of agency because that&#x27;s simply an efficient way to reason about machines that produce actions in response to the entirety of their sensory input (especially regarding parent child relationships and mutual behavior correction). This neuroarchitectural bias is essentially an illusion of free will that is so firmly wired into our brains that we cannot escape it. It is also the reason why the idea of a God comes so intuitively to many of us: an invisible actor which can be used to explain inexplicable chains of causation and can serve as a very effective metaphor for behavioral error correction (as a proxy for actual social repercussions, and hence relieved from all the complicated and hence fallible power relations to actual social error correction instances).