It can also be a case there's a cognitive delay associated with taking note of the time. The mechanism involved into decision making for muscular movements might be dramatically faster than cortical perception and verbalization of time.
The experiment seems to boil down to, "Processing and propagating signals encoding decisions, to report them to the executive centers where the conscious mind will notice them, takes time."
That's not really a wild statement about free will. It's just another paper showing that brains are made of atoms.
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Really, the experiment seems to boil down to 'the decision happens before it is noticed'
It seems a big jump to extrapolate this to 'there is no such thing as free will'
It can also be a case there's a cognitive delay associated with taking note of the time. The mechanism involved into decision making for muscular movements might be dramatically faster than cortical perception and verbalization of time.
The experiment seems to boil down to, "Processing and propagating signals encoding decisions, to report them to the executive centers where the conscious mind will notice them, takes time."
That's not really a wild statement about free will. It's just another paper showing that brains are made of atoms.