Tag: Benjamin Libet (1916–2007)

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Denyse O'Leary
Date
March 12, 2025

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Free will, Neuroscience, Philosophy of Mind

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Alan J. McComas, Benjamin Libet (1916–2007), Consciousness studies, Cristi L. S. Cooper, Featured, Reductionism in neuroscience}

Consciousness: Reductionism’s Final Hill — the One To Die On?

_{The reductionist has no more information than anyone else about the origin of human consciousness and isn’t making any better sense of the evidence we do have} _{Denyse O'Leary
March 12, 2025

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Free will, Neuroscience, Philosophy of Mind}

Is science about following the evidence or about confirming a materialist ideology about science? This is the big neuroscience question of our century.

Does Brain Surgery Prove That Free Will Isn’t Real?

_{My fellow neurosurgeon Theodore Schwartz is mistaken in thinking that free will is an illusion. It is quite real} _{Michael Egnor
February 21, 2025

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Free will, Neuroscience}

I offer four reasons that we can know that free will is real, drawn from human behavior, law, ethics, and physics.