Q&A: Repentance
Repentance
Question
Hello Rabbi Michi,
I assume you’re familiar with the experiment described below. The question is what drives free will. The claim here is that it is not our consciousness, although nowadays there are other views as well:
https://drive.google.com/open?id=1DsQb26-81HwTObdwGRTKEIhrGJuAfmTj
Answer
Ancient history. There’s a chapter about this in my book The Science of Freedom, where I explain why it isn’t relevant. By the way, I suggested there an experiment that could test this as well as possible (although I explained there that in my view a decisive ruling in favor of determinism is impossible altogether by Libet’s method), and I predicted that it would fail. About a year ago I heard an online lecture by Liad Mudrik, who took part in a major experiment that did exactly this, and it turned out I was right.
Discussion on Answer
At the moment I can’t find it. But an article about this research is here:
https://www.haaretz.co.il/science/biology/.premium-1.7219509
I think this is it:
Thank you very much.
Could I get a link to the lecture by Dr. Liad Mudrik that the Rabbi heard?