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How the experiment that nearly killed free will is still haunting neuroscience

Neuroscience could hold the key to answering one of philosophy’s oldest questionsWhether or not we have free will is a question philosophers have been debating for millennia. In the early 1980s, there was a brief moment when it appeared the debate may finally have been settled.The potential solution came not from philosophy, but neuroscience.The answer, somewhat depressingly, was that free will didn’t exist. Experiments carried out by the neuros…
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