This article talks about a “new” discovery on how people truly don’t have free will. Some researchers had people “look at five white circles in random locations on a computer screen. They were told one of them was going to turn red, and were asked to quickly choose which one they thought it would be. If they didn't have enough time to make up their mind, they could indicate that, otherwise they simply answered "yes" or "no": "yes" if they had chosen the right circle, or "no" if they hadn't.”(Macdonald) This is similar to an experiment done a couple decades back, where scientists would track someone’s motor cortex and would tell them to move their hand whenever. They were able to track that the motor cortex actually processed this action before the person was conscious of it/performing it. What a crazy experiment, machines could dictate what you were going to do before you even could. It’s difficult to argue for free will when there’s devices like these. Truly makes it seems like we’re all just puppets being pulled on
This article talks about a “new” discovery on how people truly don’t have free will. Some researchers had people “look at five white circles in random locations on a computer screen. They were told one of them was going to turn red, and were asked to quickly choose which one they thought it would be. If they didn't have enough time to make up their mind, they could indicate that, otherwise they simply answered "yes" or "no": "yes" if they had chosen the right circle, or "no" if they hadn't.”(Macdonald) This is similar to an experiment done a couple decades back, where scientists would track someone’s motor cortex and would tell them to move their hand whenever. They were able to track that the motor cortex actually processed this action before the person was conscious of it/performing it. What a crazy experiment, machines could dictate what you were going to do before you even could. It’s difficult to argue for free will when there’s devices like these. Truly makes it seems like we’re all just puppets being pulled on