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Your Brain May Not Experience Free Will the Way You Think (www.vice.com)
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[–] zo0@programming.dev 0 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I hope this is a miscommunication between the scientists and reporter because otherwise it's a very embarrassing experiment

[–] HumanPenguin@feddit.uk 0 points 5 days ago (1 children)

No just an exaggerated tittle.

The article makes it clear. The experiment just suggest free will is more mentally taxing and calculated then random will.

[–] zo0@programming.dev 0 points 3 days ago

I read the article, I mean how they decided to stimulate brain activity for making a choice by.. choosing colored balloons?

And they were surprised the subjects brains responded almost exactly the same? That means.. nothing. Everything that comes after is speculation and pseudoscience.