Originally posted by seer
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Your interpretation is correct and our free will is an illusion that requires the brain to actually post-dictate decision making in order to fool us into thinking we have free will.
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Your interpretation of the Libet experiment is wrong.
You still haven't read the PNAS paper?
It lays out that the bump seen could be a readiness action potential that is priming the brain before we make the decision. Sounds perfectly plausible to me and it doesn't need to explain the evolution of a brain that tricks itself into thinking it has free will.
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