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TagBenjamin Libet (1916–2007)

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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
Is science about following the evidence or about confirming a materialist ideology about science? This is the big neuroscience question of our century. Read More ›
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man standing in front of various paths, needing to make a decision to move forward in life. Generative Ai.

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