The #Libet #experiments are some of the most incredible and controversial studies to rattle the philosophical world. They shifted the entire #freewill debate and, according to some people, it even ended it. To understand the Libet experiments, we have to know that there is a particular part of our brain which controls our ‘readiness potential.’ Your readiness potential is what activates before any voluntary decision. So, if you decide to use your thumb to scroll your phone, then your readiness p

2.9K views · 149 reactions | What does neurophysiology have to say about the concept of free will? Neuroscientist Patrick Haggard on Benjamin Libet's experiments, the readiness potential and its effect on free will. Patrick Haggard is a neuroscientist and current Deputy Director of the Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience at University College London, where he is a professor in the department of Psychology. | Closer To Truth | Facebook