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Re:Consciousness and Anaesthesia by notamy on Wednesday June 14, 2023 @03:44PM (#36331501)
Related to the free will discussion:

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/18408715/ (full paper can be found on SciHub)

> There has been a long controversy as to whether subjectively 'free' decisions are determined by brain activity ahead of time. We found that the outcome of a decision can be encoded in brain activity of prefrontal and parietal cortex up to 10 s before it enters awareness. This delay presumably reflects the operation of a network of high-level control areas that begin to prepare an upcoming decision long before it enters awareness.

This is unfortunately only a brief for Nature Neuroscience -- from 2008, so take with a grain of salt -- and I haven't been able to find the full paper. I also would hesitate to claim this as "lack of free will" or similar; the conclusion sentence from the brief seems to be most-accurate:

> Thus, a network of high-level control areas can begin to shape an upcoming decision long before it enters awareness.

Re:Consciousness and Anaesthesia by citizenpaul on Wednesday June 14, 2023 @09:19PM (#36335220)
This study was disproven. It turned out there was a software/firmware bug in the machines used for the tests (mri?). instead of thinking yeah this doesn't make sense maybe we should take a step back, they just went on with spreading misinformation of the worst kind.