In 1983 Benjamin Libet found that brain activity predicts your movements before you are aware of deciding to move. The result has been reproduced many times, and it has been used ever since to argue that free will is an illusion. Three new papers say the measurements were fine but the interpretation was not. Let’s take a look.

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Action fluency and conscious intention: being aware of what we are about to do

https://www.base-search.net/Search/Results?type=all&lookfor=Action+Fluency+and+conscious+intention&ling=1&oaboost=1&name=&thes=&refid=dcresen&newsearch=1ù

Undermining Free Will Belief Increases Forgiveness of Self and Others

👉 ((btw www.base-search.net is a great search engine for scientific papers))

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    Not going to make evaluation of the statements made in the video. They may or may not have merit. But Sabine Hossenfelder is a bad messenger. With a history of false, unsupported and bigoted statements.