Free will

Compatibilism holds that free will and moral responsibility can coexist with determinism. Neuroscience has not settled the free will question, though it may inform responsibility.

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Libet found brain activity began hundreds of milliseconds before people reported the urge to move. Whether this undermines free will is disputed, and later work has weakened the inference.

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