"Whenever they felt the urge, they pressed a button with their right hand or a button with their left hand"
This research has nothing to do with your ability to choose. For this study, participants are told to suspend their choice, and just follow their urge.
This study merely indicates that you can predict what urges a person may experience, but I don't doubt that any individual could decide to go against their urge. And isn't that what makes us fundamentally human?
While I find this study flawed for being so quick to try and deconstruct support for free will, I find that it actually helps identify the characteristics of free will, and more significantly, that elusive human element.
/opinion..Sean
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"Whenever they felt the urge, they pressed a button with their right hand or a button with their left hand"
/opinion. .Sean
This research has nothing to do with your ability to choose. For this study, participants are told to suspend their choice, and just follow their urge.
This study merely indicates that you can predict what urges a person may experience, but I don't doubt that any individual could decide to go against their urge. And isn't that what makes us fundamentally human?
While I find this study flawed for being so quick to try and deconstruct support for free will, I find that it actually helps identify the characteristics of free will, and more significantly, that elusive human element.