Wednesday, April 16, 2008

Free Will ?

Thanks to Dilbert Blog [ http://dilbertblog.typepad.com/the_dilbert_blog/2008/04/free-will-debun.html ] I got hold of a recent article ( http://www.nature.com/neuro/journal/vaop/ncurrent/abs/nn.2112.html ) in Nature Neuroscience questions the existence of free-will, more on this article at http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/2008/04/mind_decision .
clipped from www.nature.com

There has been a long controversy as to whether subjectively 'free' decisions are determined by brain activity ahead of time. We found that the outcome of a decision can be encoded in brain activity of prefrontal and parietal cortex up to 10 s before it enters awareness. This delay presumably reflects the operation of a network of high-level control areas that begin to prepare an upcoming decision long before it enters awareness.

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