libet in A Sentence

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    Back then, the American researcher Benjamin Libet studied the nature of cerebral processes of study participants during conscious decision-making.

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    In Libet's experiments, participants were asked to perform a simple task such as pressing a button or flexing their wrist.

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    In Libet's experiments, a participant would be asked to perform a simple task such as pressing a button or flexing their wrist.

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    In a modified version of Libet's experiment in which participants were asked to press one of two buttons in response to images on a computer screen.

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    The experiments of Benjamin Libet showed how decisions made by a subject arise first on a subconscious level and only afterward are translated into the conscious decision.

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    Libet found that the unconscious brain activity leading up to the conscious decision by the subject began approximately half a second before the subject consciously felt that he had taken his decision.

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    An even more serious issue with Libet's experiment is that it is by no means clear that the electrical activity of the“readiness potential” is related to the decision to move, and the actual movement.

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    Libet found that the unconscious brain activity leading up to the conscious decision by the subject to flick his or her wrist began approximately half a second before the subject consciously felt that she had decided to move.

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    Many people believe that evidence for a lack of free will was found when, in the 1980s, scientist Benjamin Libet conducted experiments that seemed to show that the brain“registers” the decision to make movements before a person consciously decides to move.

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    And finally, in another modified version of Libet's experiment, participants showed readiness potential even when they made a decision not to move, which again casts doubt on the assumption that the readiness potential is actually registering the brain's“decision” to move.

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    Many materialists believe that evidence for a lack of free will was found when, in the 1980s, the scientist Benjamin Libet conducted experiments that seemed to show that the brain“registers” the decision to make movements before a person consciously decides to move.

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