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Consciousness, Free Will and Illusion

Post by Crash

Sunday, 03 June 2012 09:23

Is free will an illusion? Neurocientist Sam Harris thinks it is. In his new book Free Will, he states "We don't exist as immaterial conscious controllers, but are instead entirely physical beings whose decisions and behaviors are the fully caused products of the brain and body." Since the physiologist Benjamin Libet demonstrated that activity in the brain's motor regions can be detected some 300 milliseconds before a person feels that he has decided to move. This finding questions whether free will actually exists. The absence of free will would, well... wreak havoc on our religious and judicial systems since it forms the foundation of those institutions, as well as our public and personal relationships. For interesting conversation on this subject visit {SamHarris}. For counter discussion visit {Is Neuroscience the Death of Free Will?}, (TheBrowser}. Image - Matrix film

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