Submitted by BIG_RAIN_THUNDERSTORM in just_post (edited )
potential issue with using Libet's experiments to determine anything about free will: people are more willful when presented with actual options instead of deciding when to randomly twitch one finger while sitting still.
i will be using my free will to make Sam Harris trip and fall psychokinetically.
hate the atlantic and the comparison of the brain to the stock market.
probably a good thing that the press doesn't engage with this stuff realistically at all and just wants to beat people down with existential malaise🙃🙃🙃🙃🙃🙃
Moonside wrote
Tbh my ignorant ass opinion is that free will is real, but the mind is more contingent on outside factors than people generally think.