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» Think about it. "Inducing Disbelief in Free Will Alters Brain Correlates of Preconscious Motor Preparation: The Brain Minds Whether We Believe in Free Will or Not"
From the Neuroethics and Law blog:
Abstract
The feeling of being in control of one’s own actions is a strong subjective experience. However, discoveries in psychology and neuroscience challenge the validity of this experience and suggest that free will is just an illusion. This raises a question: What would happen if people started to disbelieve in free will? Previous research has shown that low control beliefs affect performance and motivation. Recently, it has been shown that undermining free-will beliefs influences social behavior. In the study reported here, we investigated whether undermining beliefs in free will affects brain correlates of voluntary motor preparation. Our results showed that the readiness potential was reduced in individuals induced to disbelieve in free will. This effect was evident more than 1 s before participants consciously decided to move, a finding that suggests that the manipulation influenced intentional actions at preconscious stages. Our findings indicate that abstract belief systems might have a much more fundamental effect than previously thought.
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So telling people about the Libet readiness potential experiments might alter the results of said experiments? I think...
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ding ding ding! . no one has yet proven randomness (even “chaos” contains patterns) and when i was a child i was shocked...
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This last sentence is all I’m trying to say, and in my opinion it has huge implications for what we mean by free will.
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So if whether or not you believe in your own free will affects the neurological behaviors related to exercising free...
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Very interesting, especially considering recent discussions in the science world regarding whether “free will” exists....
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this is relevant to me because I was looking over an argument and I couldn’t figure out WHY animals and people naturally...
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Very interesting
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Based on my experiences, I think that this ties in with the concept of “ascendancy”, or the ability to hype oneself up...
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