Science: How Free Is Your Will?

Tuesday, March 22, 2011

Science: How Free Is Your Will?

For those who are interested in Science. This is a great article about the brain's activity and the act of free will. Enjoy!

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How Free Is Your Will?
By Daniela Schiller and David Carmel

A clock face, advanced neurosurgery and startling philosophical questions about the decision to act.

Image: Marianne Reddan

Think about the last time you got bored with the TV channel you were watching and decided to change it with the remote control. Or a time you grabbed a magazine off a newsstand, or raised a hand to hail a taxi. As we go about our daily lives, we constantly make choices to act in certain ways. We all believe we exercise free will in such actions – we decide what to do and when to do it. Free will, however, becomes more complicated when you try to think how it can arise from brain activity.

Do we control our neurons or do they control us? If everything we do starts in the brain, what kind of neural activity would reflect free choice? And how would you feel about your free will if we were to tell you that neuroscientists can look at your brain activity, and tell that you are about to make a decision to move – and that they could do this a whole second and a half before you yourself became aware of your own choice?...

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