A thing about religious (and other) people and the illusion of free will

[Mister Agenda]

Freewill may not exist, but a nearly sixty-year old experiment isn't the proof of it. The man who conducted the experiment, Kornhuber, didn't think it disproved free will and much later findings supported his interpretation over the popular one. His work was confirmed by Libet, with people reporting their decision being made about 150 milliseconds before making it; while the brain activity indicating the tap was about to happen occurred about 500 milliseconds before the tap.

However:

'In a new study under review for publication in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Schurger and two Princeton researchers repeated a version of Libet’s experiment. To avoid unintentionally cherry-picking brain noise, they included a control condition in which people didn’t move at all. An artificial-intelligence classifier allowed them to find at what point brain activity in the two conditions diverged. If Libet was right, that should have happened at 500 milliseconds before the movement. But the algorithm couldn’t tell any difference until about only 150 milliseconds before the movement, the time people reported making decisions in Libet’s original experiment.

In other words, 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.'

https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...al/597736/