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Josh Mitteldorf's avatar

"Do you believe that you have freedom? Do you believe in creativity? If so, you have to reject the obtuse belief in an omniscient, omnipotent God. And you have to reject the dogma of scientific materialism. Then you have to find your way to another vision that leads to human flourishing, or beyond that to a superhuman race that has as its destiny conquest of the entire cosmos."

— Jason Jorjani

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Matej Pavsic's avatar

This is a wonderful explanation of free will as something obvious and therefore unquestionable. Unfortunately, the incorrect interpretation of Libet's experiment has led people to conclude that there is no free will and that decisions are made in brain circuits before the subject is aware of them. Consciousness is supposed to be "informed" a posteriori about the decisions made in the brain. Such was the interpretation of the observed jump in the "readiness potential" a fraction of a second before the subject became aware of her choice. In the book "The Grand Biocentric Design: How Life Creates Reality" (BenBella, 2020) (by Robert Lanza and Matrj Pavsic, with Bob Berman), we discuss---among many other things---the Libet's experiment and demonstrate that does not contradict the concept of free will.

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