@Kielicious,
the nyt article is interesting, i really like it. it isnt conclusive, it covers a lot of possibilities, but i came up with a different interpretation of the results of the experiment here:
"In the 1970s, Benjamin Libet, a physiologist at the
University of California, San Francisco, wired up the brains of volunteers to an electroencephalogram and told the volunteers to make random motions, like pressing a button or flicking a finger, while he noted the time on a clock.
Dr. Libet found that brain signals associated with these actions occurred half a second before the subject was conscious of deciding to make them.
The order of brain activities seemed to be perception of motion, and then decision, rather than the other way around.
In short, the conscious brain was only playing catch-up to what the unconscious brain was already doing. Dr. Libet's results have been reproduced again and again over the years, along with other experiments that suggest that people can be easily fooled when it comes to assuming ownership of their actions."
from the above results, i would suggest that we might have free will but it is on a subconscious level-in other words, we are not aware of what our true choices are, but we do indeed choose them. the illusion is that we are making certain conscious choices which we are not in fact making at all, but very effectively opposing on another level.
