Originally posted by Ascendancy
Libet's and Kornhuber's experiments were used to examine what impulses in the brain occur when someone is told to complete an action vs being allowed to complete the action "randomly." It was shown that brain activity occurs in the same way for both, with scientist able to know that someone was about to take action before the actor was conscious of the decision himself. The impulse is there before the person decides to act. Being able to choose when to do something would certainly be an indication of Free Will and it seems we lack the ability to actually do that in the way that we believe.
Yes, that's what I wrote.
Originally posted by Ascendancy
We also have experiments showing that people's brains can be stimulated in such ways that their bodies can be made to move and though it is the scientist administering the stimulation that causes it the person believes that they are voluntarily doing it. This leans very heavily towards Free Will being much more a matter of perception than reality.
Which is exactly why you'll have to define free will properly before we can come to any conclusions. No one argues that there's an overarching soul reading the electrochemical brain signals.