Wednesday, September 11, 2019

A Famous Argument Against Free Will Has Been Debunked

https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2019/09/free-will-bereitschaftspotential/597736/


The death of free will began with thousands of finger taps. In 1964, two German scientists monitored the electrical activity of a dozen people’s brains. Each day for several months, volunteers came into the scientists’ lab at the University of Freiburg to get wires fixed to their scalp from a showerhead-like contraption overhead. The participants sat in a chair, tucked neatly in a metal tollbooth, with only one task: to flex a finger on their right hand at whatever irregular intervals pleased them, over and over, up to 500 times a visit.



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