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Philosophy of Mind The study what the mind is and how it interacts with body. Consciousness. How does our mind effect the world around us? What is the Mind?

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Re: Benjamin Libet and Free Will

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Originally Posted by Didymos Thomas

Benjamin Libet - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Free will is a long debated subject in philosophy, and his work seems extremely important if we are going to understand the nature of our apparent freedom. What are your thoughts?

Libet's contribution ought to be seen as groundshaking. Freedom is fairly well proven, but will seems to have been upset.

The idea of the mind field or conscious field is probably not useful although it keeps brain function imaging technicians employed.

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