Waking Times: Neuroscientists have argued whether we even
have free will, but now they want to turn it off. In the 1980s scientist Benjamin Libet conducted an experiment. He
‘discovered’ that what seems to be free will or the conscious choice to
do or not do something is really just the observance of something that
has already happened. This completely rocked the foundations of what
most thought of as a prerequisite for being human, and the long-held religious view that free-will must always be honoured. These studies all seem to point in the same, troubling conclusion: We don’t really have free will.
So why then are neuroscientists trying to remove our free will?
All these studies do suggest, though, that our free will requires healthy partnerships between conscious and unconscious systems. In special circumstances like playing musical instruments, engaging in sports,
or driving a car, we apparently recruit specialized unconscious agents
with the ability to carry out certain acts quickly without conscious
“permission.”
If these “unconscious” agents can be reprogrammed, then we can be
controlled, essentially by “disabling” our free will – at least
according to pedantic science.
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