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Thoughts about Benjamin Libet's experiment

Dennett's reliance upon Benjamin Libet's experiment shows how pathetically ignorant he is of where freedom of the will is be found.  He thinks it's about acting for no reason; whereas it's acting for a reason, i.e., for a goal.  Moving a hand at an unassigned moment is one of the least suitable examples of the exercise of free will that could be conjured up.  For free will is an act of choosing between two alternatives that are intelligibly different.  Try as I may, I just can't see anything intelligible about the difference between moving my hand now and not moving my hand now. That sort of choice looks less like the product of typical deliberation than it looks like the attempt to act indeliberately, randomly.

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