Study Tackles Neuroscience Claims to Have Disproved “Free Will”

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Study Tackles Neuroscience Claims to Have Disproved “Free Will”

Summary: A new qualitative review calls into question previous findings about the neuroscience of free will.

Source: North Carolina State University.

For several decades, some researchers have argued that neuroscience studies prove human actions are driven by external stimuli — that the brain is reactive and free will is an illusion. But a new analysis of these studies shows that many contained methodological inconsistencies and conflicting results.
 

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Free will is required for rationality. If all thoughts are chemical reactions alone then the statement "experiments show that we have no free will" is no more meaningful in regards to the truth than a tree growing a branch. Scientific materialism would completely defeat science as an epistemological approach. Glad to see some counter expirements but really we could avoid so much if we just taught philosophy in school.
 
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