Reason Won't Save Us
<i>In his classic 1980s experiments, University of California, San Francisco, neurophysiologist Benjamin Libet noted a consistent change in brain wave activity (a so-called “ready potential”) prior to a subject’s awareness of having decided to move his hand. Libet’s conclusion was that the preceding activity was evidence for the decision being made subconsciously, even though subjects felt that the decision was conscious and deliberate. Since that time his findings, supported by subsequent similar results on fMRI and direct brain recordings, have featured prominently in refuting the notion of humans possessing free will.</i><p>and it's probably a data processing bug in the analysis! <a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2019/09/free-will-bereitschaftspotential/597736/" rel="nofollow">https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2019/09/free-will...</a>