Pwned: The Libet Experiment

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IQ4nwTTmcgs

Music is a very rough recording of some of the work of yours truly and the rest of the Septafoil project. Stay tuned for more in the future.

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[TheUltimateNihilist]

Libet experiment. I found this "proof" to be unreliable for both sides of the argument. Anyway, make more videos.

[Celephais42]

@TheUltimateNihilist NO U!!!1!!1!1!!one

[nicanicabad]

really good video!

[Celephais42]

@nicanicabad Thank you

[rozeboosje]

Absolutely. The woman had decided she was going to press a button the moment she agreed to participate. The automated processes of her brain then simply take over to determine exactly *when* that is going to happen, but the decision has already been made. :-)

[nicanicabad]

@Celephais42 you are most welcome

[Celephais42]

@kirke420 the bad audio is on the music recording side, not the video editing side. I need to get my damn sound board and a clusterfuck of mics to get any better sound out of it. Recording drums off of a single vocal mic just doesn't hack it :P

[Celephais42]

@Tommerman89 I'm sure neuro-sci CAN answer the question, just not with a single experiment measuring one part of the brain at a time. We're talking about the most complex humanly known organ here. Reductionism is fine for isolating what parts govern what functions, but when so much of it operates by "committee" broader views are gonna be needed.

[Celephais42]

@Tommerman89 "it's interesting that people felt compelled to push the button."

Yeah something about that stood out to me too. I tried putting myself in the place of a subject who doesn't know what's being measured. Best I could come up with is treating it like a reaction time test. Feel the desire, push the button as fast as possible (it's the gamer in me). This would, IMO, create an early build of the action potential in the brain, like a cat when it gets into the universal pounce position.

[kirke420]

@Celephais42 Well, considering my biases, and despite the bad audio, the production quality sounds great.. or in other words, had you not told me, i would thought that this was a professional, signed band. :)

P.S. Me, a professional? Pshaw!

[Celephais42]

@AncientAtheist Lol. No the " you" being addressed in the vid is no actual person.

As for the free-will debate.... It's for the lulz. Other than that I agree with you fundamentally there. I've got personal addendums and caveats that I'd toss on top of it, nothing major