Tag: Aaron Schurger

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News
Date
March 14, 2025

Categorized
Free will

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Aaron Schurger, Benjamin Libet, Compatibilism, Daniel Witt, Free Agents (Princeton 2023), Kevin Mitchell, Liad Mudrik, Uri Maoz}

A Materialist Neuroscientist Makes a Case for Free Will

_{Kevin Mitchell makes a good case though his book is not equally persuasive on every point} _{News
March 14, 2025

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Mitchell points out that “there is nothing in the laws of physics that rules out the possibility of agency or free will, a priori.” Read More ›

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News
Date
February 13, 2024

Categorized
Free will, Neuroscience

Tagged
Aaron Schurger, Benjamin Libet (free will experiments), Cristi L. S. Cooper, Minding the Brain (Discovery Institute Press 2023)}

How Neuroscience Disproved Free Will and Then Proved It Again

_{In this excerpt from Minding the Brain (2023), neuroscientist Cristi L. S. Cooper discusses the discovery of “free won’t” — the decision NOT to do something} _{News
February 13, 2024

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Free will, Neuroscience}

Neuroscientist Benjamin Libet was skeptical of claims that he had disproved free will, so he continued to experiment and found that he hadn’t after all. Read More ›

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Denyse O'Leary
Date
October 21, 2023

Categorized
Neuroscience, Philosophy of Mind

Tagged
Aaron Schurger, Benjamin Libet (free will experiments), Cristi L. S. Cooper, Michael Egnor, Minding the Brain (Discovery Institute Press 2023), Phineas gage}

Modern Neuroscience Does NOT Disprove Free Will

_{In a chapter of Minding the Brain (2023), Cristi L. S. Cooper looks at the current state of neuroscience research on free will} _{Denyse O'Leary
October 21, 2023

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Neuroscience, Philosophy of Mind}

In a chapter of Minding the Brain (2023), Cristi L. S. Cooper looks at the current state of neuroscience research on free will Read More ›

Selective focus on a computer recording brain waves of a mature gentleman getting his brain analyzed by an electroencephalography machine.

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Denyse O'Leary
Date
September 13, 2019

Categorized
Neuroscience, Philosophy of Mind

Tagged
Aaron Schurger, Benjamin Libet, free will}

Was famous old evidence against free will just debunked?

_{The pattern that was thought to prove free will an illusion may have been noise} _{Denyse O'Leary
September 13, 2019

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Neuroscience, Philosophy of Mind}

The participants in the experiment did not sense that their decision about flexing their fingers mattered, so they went with the flow. But, according to more recent research, the subjective experience of making a decision is not an illusion at all.