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Re:Our Conscious Experience of the World Is but a Memory, Sa... by electrondood on Wednesday October 26, 2022 @11:22AM (#33345114)
Benjamin Libet found that actions we believe to be volitional, intentional acts arise in the brain 500ms prior to the sensation of "deciding" to do them.
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Re:Our Conscious Experience of the World Is but a Memory, Sa... by bumby on Wednesday October 26, 2022 @02:55PM (#33347813)
I'm not sure why you're being downvoted, but it may be that Libet's findings have been brought into question.

"people’s subjective experience of a decision—what Libet’s study seemed to suggest was just an illusion—appeared to match the actual moment their brains showed them making a decision."[1]

In short, Libet's findings may have been an experimental error related to noisy brain activity.

[1]https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2019/09/free-will...

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