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It has been speculated that we may have free won’t rather than free will. Our unconscious mind may initiate an action potential, but we can can veto it before it is carried out.

Free will vs. determinism is an unsolved question and science hasn't resolved it no matter what people say about the Libet experiments. If you are not familiar with them they say that there is an action potential that exists about 300 milliseconds before you are aware of an intention to act. That is...

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Those issues are discussed in the article. I recommend reading it before criticizing it. I did read it and it makes no sense. That's why I am criticizing it. I assume you believe the universe existed before conscious beings evolved on one planet, but that doesn't mean the material world didn't follo...

KJM, Can you give me the reference to Aaron O’Connell's 2010 experiment? I am not familiar with an observable object being in superposition. If this were true, we would being seeing objects being in multiple places at the same time or objects suddenly disappearing and reappearing. This happens to el...

There is a reason it is called the "Measurement Problem" and not the "Consciousness Problem." The reason is that consciousness is not required for the collapse of the wave function. If there are mechanical detectors placed in the double slit experiment to measure through which sl...