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Free will – does it really exist or is it just an illusion? What findings have we found from science? People have been puzzling over the existence of free will for centuries. Philosophers, scientists and filmmakers have dealt with it. They all keep asking themselves the same question: Can we freely decide what we do? Or is everything predetermined? In the past, many people believed that gods or a god decided our fate. Free will did not exist because a god predetermined everything. But even Eve and Adam tried to assert their own free will. Even people who do not believe in predestination by an all-powerful being are cautious about our free will. Why? Science has a lot of insights to offer. You can find out more about this in the video! You will also find out: What exactly is “free will”? Does free will even exist? What does science say about the topic of “free will”? 00:00 Introduction 00:24 Initial situation: Do we have free will? 04:33 Readiness potential: How does free will arise in the brain? 05:58 Libet experiment: Unconscious or conscious decision? 09:13 Conclusion: Free will – does it exist or not? Sources: 1. What do philosophers believe? Bourget D. et al., Philosophical Studies, 2014 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11098-013-02... 2. Brain potential changes during voluntary and passive movements in humans: readiness potential and reafferent potentials Kornhuber HH et al., Pflüger's Archives for the Entire Physiology of Humans and Animals, 1965 https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00412364 3. TIME OF CONSCIOUS INTENTION TO ACT IN RELATION TO ONSET OF CEREBRAL ACTIVITY (READINESS-POTENTIAL): THE UNCONSCIOUS INITIATION OF A FREELY VOLUNTARY ACT LIBET B. et al., Brain, 1983 https://doi.org/10.1093/brain/106.3.623 4. Libet's intention reports are invalid: A replication of Dominik et al. (2017) Sanford P. et al., Consciousness and Cognition, 2020 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science... 5. Why neuroscience does not disprove free will Brass M. et al., Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 2019 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science... 6. An accumulator model for spontaneous neural activity prior to self-initiated movement Schurger A. et al., Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2012 https://www.pnas.org/content/109/42/E... Authors: Ralph Caspers / Ingo Knopf Camera / Editing / Graphics: Klaus Wache Editor: Monika Grebe --- Thanks for watching! Did you like the video? Then subscribe now to the only official Quarks channel on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/Quarks?sub_co... Also visit: https://www.quarks.de #Quarks on Instagram: / quarks.de / beautyquarks Quarks on Twitter: / quarkswdr Quarks on Facebook: / quarks.de #Quarks #FreeWill #Science