Some recent theories in Neuroscience (by Thomas Metzinger and Daniel Wegner) would seem to suggest that we do not have, selfs or free will in the sense that we think we do. In fact our brain models our bodies as it models the outside world, and we call this our self. We do not have free will:All our actions are begun long before we consciously decide to do them. Are these conclusions true?
No.
Might as well say that violins don’t play music because they have strings.
However it may well be true that "our actions are begun long before we consciously decide to do them" - there is no reason why our decisions should not originate in our unconscious (and esp in the right brain) with the possibility of a conscious over-ride.
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