Konuyla ilgilenenler ve kitapla ilgili fikir sahibi olmak isteyenler için Alfred R. Mele'nin "Why Science Hasn't Disproved Free Will" kitabından aldığım not ve alıntıları ekliyorum.
There are two main scientific arguments today against the existence of free will. One comes from neurosci-ence. Its basic claim is that all our decisions are made unconsciously and therefore not freely. The other argu-ment comes from social psychology. This time, the basic claim is that factors of which we are unaware have such a powerful influence on our behavior that no room remains for free will.
* Justifying punishment *
* Moral responsibility *
* Determinism *
"Libet believed that once we become aware of our decisions or intentions to do some-thing right away, we have about a tenth of a second to veto them; he thought free will might play a role in vetoing. As someone put it, Libet believed that although we don’t have free will, we do have free won’t."
—might have signaled a potential step along the way to a decision to flex, a step that sometimes or often doesn’t result in a decision and doesn’t result in a flexing. Again, for all we know, on some occasions—maybe many—there was a rise at time R and no associated flexing action
The task is to flex a wrist without con-sciously thinking about when to do it. If we want to know whether conscious reasoning ever plays a role in produc-ing decisions, we shouldn’t restrict our attention to situa-tions in which people are instructed not to think about what to.
First, if Libet’s participants never intended to flex when the spot reached the nine o’clock point, then his veto experiment doesn’t prove that we have the power to veto our inten-tions. And I bet they didn’t intend to flex.
Libet’s argument in a nutshell
1. The participants in