
Adina Roskies on Neuroscience and Free Will
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Libit and Sobine Experiments
There are experiments that investigate the neural basis of decision making in monkeys. They have monkeys do relatively simple perceptual decision tasks, and they look at the neural activity. And on the basis of the neural activity in certain regions of the brain, they can predict whether the monkey is going to choose one way or another. So we really want to know what's going on at that microscopic level. We've primates that ere quite interesting, yes u.
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