These studies are pretty much meaningless for the conceptual argument against libertarian free will anyway. More often than not this appears to be a debate about semantics.
The Libet results on free will and their many descendants are crumbling now, and there is more to come. A nice case of science exposing hidden dualist assumptions in neuroscience.https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2019/09/free-will-bereitschaftspotential/597736/ …
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True. People don’t really disagree about the idea of free will, they just don’t share the same interpretation of the term.
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So what is this "free will" exactly? Something magical that exists outside of physical reality and makes decisions for us? Sounds like something a Bible-thumper would come up with.
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Who is asking the question? And where does it exist with in the brain?
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Please explain again how the amplification of random noise = freedom.
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Here is one possible explanation: https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10.1098/rspb.2010.2325 … A quick analogy would be evolution: random mutation and selection of the most adaptive idea.
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One quote says that philosophers are ‘making progress’ on the question of free will. How silly.
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We don't have to assume dualism to accept some form of free will. A complex brain, coupled to itself & its environment, can be approximated as not deterministic, b/c of its feedback to itself. It constitutes a nonlinear system whose output is not determined by initial conditions.
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Dualism can have multiple meaning if the parties/ entities changed: …http://thewhyquestionofexistenceanswered.blogspot.com/2015/03/the-rationale-of-being-existentially.html?m=1 …
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