Monday, March 9, 2009

Reasons to doubt the existence of supernatural free will

Physical warmth induces interpersonal warmth.
Oxytocin increases trust among people.
Using a magnetic stimulator causes you to move a limb and have the sensation of you moving it by your own free will.(Talk about experiment starts on page 8)
Decisions can be registered in the brain, several seconds before they become conscious thoughts.
The strange effect on consciousness that occur in split-brain patients.
And all other ways in which consciousness can be affected by natural processes (e.g. sleep, brain damage, mind-altering drugs).

When all the evidence about brain processes shows only natural causes and effects, any supernatural hypothesis should be discarded.

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