Tag: Benjamin Libet
Looking for Consciousness in All the Wrong Places
If concept cells nestled in the hippocampi were the seat of consciousness, bilateral hippocampal destruction would cause loss of consciousness. It doesn’t.
Did Evolution Give Us Free Will?
If you pick up a book up about free will by a materialist, you are generally safe to assume that the point will be to explain that free will is an illusion.
A Scholarly Riposte to Pop Free Will Denialism
Denial of free will is a quick route to totalitarianism. If you can’t be guilty because you can’t choose, you can’t be innocent either.
Free Will: What Are the Reasons to Believe in It?
Some say that free will might be a useful delusion but neuroscience provides sound reasons to believe that it is real.
New Brain Research Supports Free Will
Researchers, altering Libet’s classical experiment, found that human brains show no “readiness potential” when a decision is important.