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In reply to the discussion: We do not have free will. [View all]qazplm135
(7,465 posts)"Despite his findings, Libet himself did not interpret his experiment as evidence of the inefficacy of conscious free will he points out that although the tendency to press a button may be building up for 500 milliseconds, the conscious will retains a right to veto any action at the last moment. According to this model, unconscious impulses to perform a volitional act are open to suppression by the conscious efforts of the subject (sometimes referred to as "free won't" . A comparison is made with a golfer, who may swing a club several times before striking the ball. The action simply gets a rubber stamp of approval at the last millisecond."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuroscience_of_free_will#cite_ref-Libet_2003_52-0
Benjamin Libet is the one who did the study that showed that things started in motion to move one's hand before the conscious mind registered doing so.
http://openurl.ingenta.com/content?genre=article&issn=1355-8250&volume=10&issue=12&spage=24&epage=28
Additionally, plenty of criticism of the study that the ability to finely time the moment of brain activity with the moment of "will" is fairly sketchy at best. It is not remotely universally accepted that Libet found what he thinks he found, but again, even he does not believe this means there is no free will.