The brain-computer duel: Do we have free will?
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Christian
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"Berlin researchers test mechanisms involved in decision-making
The background to this new set of experiments lies in the debate regarding conscious will and determinism in human decision-making, which has attracted researchers, psychologists, philosophers and the general public, and which has been ongoing since at least the 1980s. At that time, the American researcher Benjamin Libet studied the nature of cerebral processes of study participants during conscious decision-making. He demonstrated that conscious decisions were initiated by unconscious brain processes, and that a wave of brain activity referred to as a 'readiness potential' could be recorded even before the subject had made a conscious decision."
http://www.neuroscientistnews.com/research-news/brain-computer-duel-do-we-have-free-will
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