@ChoiceEngine

The Choice Engine was an interactive essay about the psychology, neuroscience and philosophy of free will.

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I am retired now. You can read my full text here github.com/tomstafford/choic…

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'That it’s you and no one else that owns / That spot that yer standing, that space that you’re sitting'. bobdylan.com/songs/last-thou… (2022-11-17 07:10:25 UTC)
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Frith & Haggard (2018). Volition and the Brain – Revisiting a Classic Experimental Study cell.com/trends/neuroscience… (2022-11-17 03:10:31 UTC)

Volition and the Brain – Revisiting a Classic Experimental Study

In 1983 Libet et al. demonstrated that brain activity associated with a voluntary act precedes conscious experience of the intention to act by several hundred milliseconds. The implication that it is...

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'Calvinism but no Hobbes' by Luke Surl lukesurl.com/archives/comic/… (2022-11-16 20:10:22 UTC)
When something affects your mind your brain is changed. Thoughts and feelings, arguments and reasons, all have a physical reality in your brain meat. (2022-11-16 00:10:24 UTC)
Explorable on cellular automata spaciecat.github.io/cells/ (2022-11-11 23:10:27 UTC)
I don't respond to replies immediately. Sometimes it can take a few hours, but I will get to yours soon. Make sure you are following to ensure you see replies. (2022-11-10 09:10:13 UTC)
Finding out more about neuroscience doesn’t diminish our responsibilities, or our selves. (2022-11-10 08:10:20 UTC)
Play Conway's Game of Life playgameoflife.com/ (2022-11-08 15:10:16 UTC)

Play John Conway’s Game of Life

Play the Game of Life online, a single player game invented in 1970 by Cambridge mathematician John Conway.

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Explorable on cellular automata spaciecat.github.io/cells/ (2022-11-07 15:10:22 UTC)
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NEW RESEARCH: For whom does determinism undermine moral responsibility? Surveying the conditions for free will across cultures psyarxiv.com/j248d/ (2022-11-07 03:10:23 UTC)
Fabienne Serrière makes computational knitwear xitter.cf/knityak (2022-11-05 17:10:30 UTC)
Using fMRI to repeat the Libet experiments: Soon et al (2008). Unconscious determinants of free decisions in the human brain nature.com/articles/nn.2112 (2022-11-04 20:10:33 UTC)

Unconscious determinants of free decisions in the human brain

Nature Neuroscience - Unconscious determinants of free decisions in the human brain

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Watch Richard Dawkins explain the experiments with the digger wasp in the 1991 Royal Institution Christmas Lectures youtu.be/qm-0Z0ceezQ?t=2m30s (2022-11-01 13:10:16 UTC)
Fabienne Serrière makes computational knitwear xitter.cf/knityak (2022-11-01 11:10:17 UTC)
RADIO:In Our Time on Free Will (Originally broadcast 4 March 2011) bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00z5y9… (2022-10-31 18:10:36 UTC)

BBC Radio 4 - In Our Time, Free Will

Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss free will.

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RADIO:In Our Time on Free Will (Originally broadcast 4 March 2011) bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00z5y9… (2022-10-31 12:10:25 UTC)

BBC Radio 4 - In Our Time, Free Will

Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss free will.

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Free Will Is Real. Philosopher Christian List argues against reductionism and determinism in accounts of the mind (Scientific American) blogs.scientificamerican.com… (2022-10-30 22:10:29 UTC)
Research Digest: Contrary to popular psychological theory, believers in free will were no more generous or honest digest.bps.org.uk/2018/08/20… (2022-10-29 11:10:15 UTC)
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'A parasitic wasp has injected her eggs into a caterpillar -- and now they're ready to hatch. ' National Geographic youtube.com/watch?v=vMG-LWyN… (2022-10-29 06:10:47 UTC)
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