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Speed of nerve impulse through tissue: Up to 120 m/s Add to that muscle charging time. Add to that tissue acceleration. Etc. The fact that the brain decided
by quickben 10y ago
Speed of nerve impulse through tissue: Up to 120 m/s
Add to that muscle charging time.
Add to that tissue acceleration.
Etc.
The fact that the brain decided 200 [ms] before the finger moved is just plain newtonian physics in the macro world.
But, modern journalism just have to hype it.
- criddell 10y agoI think http://www.nature.com/neuro/journal/v11/n5/abs/nn.2112.html http://www.nature.com/neuro/journal/v11/n5/abs/nn.2112.html is a better experiment. The outcome is predictable 7-10 seconds before the person "decides".
- quickben 10y agoYou will forgive me, but I'm too skeptical. This summarizes my feelings about the 'predictability' of these studies: https://www.theguardian.com/science/2015/aug/27/study-delivers-bleak-verdict-on-validity-of-psychology-experiment-results https://www.theguardian.com/science/2015/aug/27/study-delive... As far as proofs go, there are few elegant free will thought experiments, may it be from philosophical, spiritual or scientific approach/kind, that are actually all for some level of free will in this system we live in. But anything that have people guess something, and then conclude if free will exist or doesn't, just fails bunch of working techniques we have to coming to conclusions from experiments.
- criddell 10y agoI can't think of a non-magical mechanism for free will and so isn't the simpler solution (Occam's Razor) simply that it doesn't exist?