Free Will:Convergence and Divergence of Libet and Wegner

Abstract

Int the light of the advancement in cognitive neuroscientific investigations of free will, from rCBF to EEG scan techniques and eventually fMRI scan techniques, such advanced studies on free will arguing for human determinism centre their research on the works of Libet and Wegner. The neurobiological experiment of Libet and the cognitive assessment by Wegner could be argued to eliminate the possibility of free will but Libet and Wegner’s views are in tandem, non-identical and intolerant of human freedom. This article exposes the incoherency intercepting Libet and Wegner’s studies and the philosophical imports that make them not coherent.

Keywords: initiation, control, readiness potential, conscious will, illusion

DOI: 10.7176/JPCR/56-01

Publication date:March 31^st 2023