There have been ongoing philosophical and theological arguments about free will vs. predestination. How do experiments on the human brain inform us on this question? Robert J. Marks discusses free will, free won’t, predestination, and the brain with Dr. Michael Egnor.

Show Notes

• 00:40 | Introducing Dr. Michael Egnor, Professor of Neurosurgery and Pediatrics at State University of New York, Stony Brook
• 01:04 | Free will vs. predestination
• 01:49 | The research of Benjamin Libet
• 07:07 | Overcoming addictions
• 08:01 | Rewiring your brain
• 09:13 | Hebb’s Law
• 10:00 | The misrepresentation of Benjamin Libet’s experiments
• 11:44 | Reproducing Benjamin Libet’s experiments

Additional Resources

• Michael Egnor at Discovery Institute
• Michael Egnor’s articles at Mind Matters News
• Michael Egnor’s podcast with Edward Feser
• “Michael Egnor Demolishes the Myth of Materialism” video
• Benjamin Libet at Wikipedia
• Mind Time: The Temporal Factor in Consciousness by Benjamin Libet
• Dr. Jeffrey Schwartz’s website
• Hebb’s Law at Wikipedia
• Bereitschaftspotential (“readiness potential”) at Wikipedia