I'm gonna focus on scientifical research not philosophical view, mainly Libets experiment.
Now the experiment of Libet shows that when it comes to our movements the subconious makes the decision not us , our conciouss mind can only veto the movement. But some interpret this experiment saying that we don't have free will.
Can't agree, if this is what this experiment shows than we are the slaves of our unconciouss mind . It can be true because lets say that for an example you are in to the club and you see a beautifull girl , your unconciouss wants you to go there and fuck her( rape) , we all know that this isn't true, despite of how much we would want to do that thing we can stop ourselfs.
Now to go back on Libet s experiment , the main problem here is that we can't do two thing at the same time , Libet told the participants that when they chose to move their hand they should point the exact time on the clock, that means chosing and declaring at the same time , it can't be possible , soo what really happened there is that the unconciouss mind took care of the motor function and just made the participant aware of it so that he could focus on declaring when the decision was made.
Another example of this thing happening. A few days ago I was driving someone to a wedding, but at the same time I was thinking about the problem of free will, when I reached the intersection where I should have made a right , I turned left without knowing . Same thing , the unconciouss took care of my motor function turning left on the road I usually take to go to school to let the conciouss mind focus on a grater problem.
Now the experiment of Libet shows that when it comes to our movements the subconious makes the decision not us , our conciouss mind can only veto the movement. But some interpret this experiment saying that we don't have free will.
Can't agree, if this is what this experiment shows than we are the slaves of our unconciouss mind . It can be true because lets say that for an example you are in to the club and you see a beautifull girl , your unconciouss wants you to go there and fuck her( rape) , we all know that this isn't true, despite of how much we would want to do that thing we can stop ourselfs.
Now to go back on Libet s experiment , the main problem here is that we can't do two thing at the same time , Libet told the participants that when they chose to move their hand they should point the exact time on the clock, that means chosing and declaring at the same time , it can't be possible , soo what really happened there is that the unconciouss mind took care of the motor function and just made the participant aware of it so that he could focus on declaring when the decision was made.
Another example of this thing happening. A few days ago I was driving someone to a wedding, but at the same time I was thinking about the problem of free will, when I reached the intersection where I should have made a right , I turned left without knowing . Same thing , the unconciouss took care of my motor function turning left on the road I usually take to go to school to let the conciouss mind focus on a grater problem.
