Libet experiment
In the Libet experiment, the subjects said they acted freely but their rp came before their decision. I thought I could excuse the feeling of freedom they said they had in two ways. One was that they didn’t know what free choice was, that there had to be discretion and not just raising their hand arbitrarily, but because it came to them from some instinct that came from them, they thought it was freedom. And the second excuse was that they were indeed free, but some chose to go with the rp and some didn’t, and they really did it freely. What do you think?
The first seems correct to me. It is of course a matter of definition.
The second is Libet’s veto claim.
You can check out the column "The slave of God is alone free" at length.
The two answers are not contradictory and seem to me to work together. While it goes without saying that they do not know what free choice is, they may well know, and indeed felt that they were acting freely. They felt an urge to raise their hand – they did not exercise a veto and felt that they had the freedom to veto if they had wanted to.
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