Body and Freedom. Libet’s neurological experiment
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https://doi.org/10.14422/pen.v72.i273.y2016.014Keywords:
freedom, determinism, Libet, body, neuroscience.Abstract
The classic debate between determinism and freedom has been revived with the neurological Libet experiment and its various versions. Some have wanted to see in it a scientific and irrefutable confirmation of determinism, that is, that subjectivity and consciousness are not agents but a mere effect of objective neuronal processes. The article argues that this interpretation is incorrect because it forgets one point, the process of preparing the experiment, and because it doesn’t see another, the subjective nature of the body since, methodologically, science has to deal only with the objective being and must make an abstraction of any another way of being.
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