RE: Free Will: Fact or Fiction
September 25, 2012 at 7:43 pm
(This post was last modified: September 25, 2012 at 7:50 pm by IATIA.)
(September 25, 2012 at 3:20 pm)Tino Wrote: I know it's become fashionable lately to say that we don't have free will, but I don't buy it. We appear to have free will, so I think the burden of proof is on those who say we don't. I would like to see an experiment proposed to show that our will is not free.
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Quote:Dr. Libet measured the response time between the moment the brain of a patient was stimulated and the time the patient became consciously aware of the stimulus. He found there was a consistent half-second delay between the patients' unconscious reaction and their conscious awareness of the stimulus.
Here is a newer experiment.
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-- Homer Simpson
God has no place within these walls, just as facts have no place within organized religion.
-- Superintendent Chalmers
Science is like a blabbermouth who ruins a movie by telling you how it ends. There are some things we don't want to know. Important things.
-- Ned Flanders
Once something's been approved by the government, it's no longer immoral.
-- The Rev Lovejoy
