Neil Levy (over at Garden of the Forking Paths) just pointed out a pretty interesting study that may be of interest to philosophers interested in freewill.
The short version: A group of scientists have some confirmation of the hypothesis that the neural activity correlated with conscious decisions happens a full 7 seconds before the conscious decision is registered by the person making the decision.
The short version: A group of scientists have some confirmation of the hypothesis that the neural activity correlated with conscious decisions happens a full 7 seconds before the conscious decision is registered by the person making the decision.
Labels: metaphysics, philosophy
posted by Andrew Cullison at
8:22 AM
1 Comments:
This is amazing! I saw this info on a video podcast earlier. But we have to remember that the test subject knew what situation he/she was in for several seconds before the subject actually pressed a button.
Therefore, when unpredicted thing happen, the brain hasn't had any time to evaluate and decide what to do.
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