“You Experience It To Be Within Your Power To Stop Reading This Paragraph. Apparently, You Freely Decided
“You experience it to be within your power to stop reading this paragraph. Apparently, you freely decided to continue. Perhaps you are curious how it will unfold. But you strongly sense that you could have done otherwise; you could have stopped reading (and you still can). However, from what we know about the laws of nature, it is not clear how the brain could control a neural process that would result in different outcomes when starting from the same brain state. It is also unclear how your interest in the contents of this paragraph led to the neural process that culminated in you reading it.” - Uri Maoz
Illustration by Paolo Uberti.
https://www.chapman.edu/our-faculty/uri-maoz
https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2019/09/free-will-bereitschaftspotential/597736/
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