Ten Great Ideas: Free Will
| Your thoughts can be read before even you know what they are. | Link | YouTube. 5 mins | |
| Free will: just an illusion? | Fascinating discussion by various experts. Youtube. 1 hr 15 mins. | ||
| Dan Ariely asks, Are we in control of our decisions? | Dan Ariely: Youtube. 17 mins. | ||
| The Libet Experiment: Is free will just an illusion? | Animated talk from BBC Radio 4. 2 mins | ||
| The Libet Experiment: Neuroscience and Free Will | Extract from a BBC documentary with Marcus du Sautoy. Youtube. 4 mins. |
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| The illusion of consciousness | Philosopher Dan Dennett makes a compelling argument that not only don't we understand our own consciousness, but that half the time our brains are actively fooling us. |
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| Oliver Sacks, Antonio Damasio and Others Debate Christof Koch on the Nature of Consciousness | Text-based from scientificamerican.com | ||
| The Neuroscience of Free Will and the Illusion of “You” | Link | From psychologytoday.com | |
| What Neuroscience Says about Free Will | Link | From scientificamerican.com | |
| Philosophy versus Neuroscience on the Question of Free Will | Link | A philosopher offers counterarguments to the post above |
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Greg Gage: How to control someone else's arm with your brain |
Ted Talks.YouTube. 6 mins How about if you control a brain with a brain? |
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| There is evidence that, at least to some extent, some of the decisions we make are made subconsciously, before we are even aware that we made a decision | Link | Blogpost from Dr. Steven Novella - an academic clinical neurologist at Yale University School of Medicine. | |
| Stop Telling People They Don't Have Free Will | Link | Daniel Dennett is a world-famous philosopher. Rather dubious reasoning here I would have thought. What do you think? YouTube. 5 mins | |
| What happens if society no longer believe in free will? | Link | Gregg Caruso on YouTube 10 mins. Via TED | |
| Michio Kaku: Why Physics Ends the Free Will Debate | Link | Kaku's arguement seems to be that because we can't make predictions (due to quantum physics), freewill doesn't exist. Seems a bit dubious? |