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Philosopher Alessandra Buccella and experimental psychologist Tomáš Dominik, both at Chapman University, offer some interesting support for free will. Many commentators interpreted Benjamin Libet's experiments that showed that the brain's...

Researchers, altering Libet’s classical experiment, found that human brains show no “readiness potential” when a decision is important

New research findings, combined with philosophy, suggest free will is real but may not operate in the ways people expect

 by DT Strain Plato’s book of Phaedo may be especially important in ancient Greek philosophic concepts on the soul. In it, Socrates is written to argue

Julian Baggini’s proposed new approach assumes the existence of the very qualities that only a traditional view of the mind offers.

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New study undermines the link between neural electrical activity and free will For decades, researchers have debated whether the buildup of certain electrical activities in the brain indicates that human beings are unable to act out of free will. Experiments spanning the 1960s and 1980s measured brain signals noninvasively and led many neuroscientists to believe that our brains make decisions before we do--that human actions were initiated by electrical waves that did not reflect free, consciou...

For decades, researchers have debated whether the buildup of certain electrical activities in the brain indicates that human beings are unable to act out of free will. A new article argues that recent research undermines this case against free will.

How unconscious forces control our actions By Magda Osman30th May 2021 Subliminal messaging and nudge psychology lead us to believe that we can be influenced without us realising, but just how powerful is our unconscious mind? Sometimes when I ask myself why Ive made a certain choice, I realise I dont actually know. To what extent we are ruled by things we arent conscious of? – Paul, 43, London Why did you buy your car? Why did you fall in love with your partner? When we start to examine the ...

BCI is heralded as enabling the disembodied agent to consciously command her interaction with the world, whereas research on the reading of motor intentions is often said to expose the illusion of conscious agency. What explains this divergence of attitudes?