Freedom of choice
What the Rabbi Says About: In an experiment conducted by a man named Benjamin Libet, he asked one of his patients to move his hand whenever he felt like it. Libet discovered that the desire to move his hand appeared in the patient’s brain long before he himself was aware of this desire. In other words, some of our actions may be impulsive, without us even choosing to perform them. In retrospect, it seems like free will to us, but we may only justify the action after it has happened and mistakenly think that it was our desire. It happens so quickly that we are not even aware of the process.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=115&v=OjCt-L0Ph5o&feature=emb_title
I was almost certain it was a troll, but in the end I assume it was a questioner who didn’t know. I wrote an entire chapter about it in my books on the science of freedom, and I also addressed it in an article on freedom of will:
https://mikyab.net/%d7%9b%d7%aa%d7%91%d7%99%d7%9d/%d7%9e%d7%90%d7%9e%d7%a8%d7%99%d7%9d/%d7%9e%d7%91%d7%98-%d7%a9%d7%99%d7%98%d7%aa%d7%99-%d7%a2%d7%9c-%d7%97%d7%95%d7%a4%d7%a9-%d7%94%d7%a8%d7%a6%d7%95%d7%9f
The rabbi forgot that they also discovered that it wasn't really true.
Someone brought a link here from a ratio site like Madmoni who brought a link to YouTube to a lecture by some professor on the subject.
You probably mean Liad Modric. I brought her lecture here before. I haven't forgotten, and the things are still controversial.
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