by Nathaniel Mauka
Neuroscientists have argued whether we even have free will, but now they want to turn it off.
The Libet Experiment
In the 1980s scientist Benjamin Libet conducted an experiment. He ‘discovered’ that what seems to be free will or the conscious choice to do or not do something is really just the observance of something that has already happened. This completely rocked the foundations of what most thought of as a prerequisite for being human, and the long-held religious view that free-will must always be honored.
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