the-concept-of-control-and-dictatorship-over-people-stockpac-622023244-stockpack-adobestock Type post Author Denyse O’Leary Date January 3, 2026 CategoriesEthicsNeuroscience & Mind Tagged , Alain Aspect, Anton Zeilinger, atheists, Benjamin Libet, Determined: A Science of Life Without Free Will, free will, J. D. Vance, John F. Clauser, logic, meat puppets, Michael Egnor, Minority Report, neuroscience, neuroscientists, physics, readiness potential, Robert Sapolsky, Sam Harris, Soviet Union, Stanford University, The Immortal Mind, totalitarianism, United States, Wilder Penfield, Yuval Noah Harari Free Will vs. the Totalitarian Temptation Denyse O’Leary January 3, 2026 Ethics, Neuroscience & Mind 7 If our thoughts and choices really are wholly determined, well then what follows? Read More ›
free will Type post Author Denyse O’Leary Date October 24, 2023 CategoriesMedicineNeuroscience & Mind Tagged , Benjamin Libet, Chile, determinism, Discovery Institute Press, free will, Michael Egnor, Michigan State University, neuroscience, neurosurgeons, readiness potential, totalitarianism, Zeitgeist A Scholarly Riposte to Pop Free Will Denialism Denyse O’Leary October 24, 2023 Medicine, Neuroscience & Mind 6 Denial of free will is a quick route to totalitarianism. If you can’t be guilty because you can’t choose, you can’t be innocent either. Read More ›
free will Type post Author Denyse O’Leary Date January 19, 2023 CategoriesNeuroscience & MindScience Tagged , Benjamin Libet, brain, brain activity, choices, consciousness, free will, Marcelo Gleiser, neuroscience, readiness potential, Scientific American, self New Brain Research Supports Free Will Denyse O’Leary January 19, 2023 Neuroscience & Mind, Science 6 Researchers, altering Libet’s classical experiment, found that human brains show no “readiness potential” when a decision is important. Read More ›
