Wednesday, April 30, 2008

Experiment Rules Out Human Free Will

A recent experiment conducted by John Dylan Haynes, professor at the Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience in Berlin raises troubling questions on human's dearest possession: his free will. The results of the experiment in question showed that, 10 seconds before consciously making a decision, the human brain had already taken it. This would indicate that people don't have a real option in front of them, but are following a pattern easy to read by a machine.

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