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Neuroscience and the Libet Experiments
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Libet's experiments found brain readiness activity before participants' reported awareness of deciding—often read as the brain deciding first.
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Participants noted when they felt the urge to flex a wrist; the readiness potential led by a fraction of a second.
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The reading is contested—timing reports, the meaning of readiness signals, and trivial wrist-flexes all limit the conclusion.
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