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So now free will is just background noise?

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From The Independent:

The concept of free will could be little more than the result of background noise in the brain, according to a recent study.

It has previously been suggested that our perceived ability to make autonomous choices is an illusion – and now scientists from the Center for Mind and Brain at the University of California, Davis, have found that free will may actually be the result of electrical activity in the brain.

According to the research, published in the Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, decisions could be predicted based on the pattern of brain activity immediately before a choice was made. …

Because it is not instantaneous.

They never quit because they can’t.

If naturalists cannot “explain something like free will, it is game over. But in their world, any clever claim counts as an “explanation.”

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