Support the show with Closer To Truth merch: https://bit.ly/3P2ogje

Who’s the boss, me or my brain? Brain data does not favor free will. In the famous Libet experiment, my brain makes decisions prior to my conscious sense of making that decision—brain activity precedes personal awareness. But there seems to be more to me than my brain? Is that illusion? How to judge among the diverse and competing claims about free will?

For subscriber-only exclusives, register for free today: https://shorturl.at/ajRZ8

Subscribe to the Closer To Truth podcast with new episodes every Wednesday: https://shorturl.at/hwGP3

Tim Bayne is Professor of Philosophy at Monash University, Australia. He is a Senior Fellow in the CIFAR Brain, Mind, and Consciousness program.

Watch more videos on the science of free will: https://shorturl.at/suwx5

Closer To Truth, hosted by Robert Lawrence Kuhn and directed by Peter Getzels, presents the world’s greatest thinkers exploring humanity’s deepest questions. Discover fundamental issues of existence. Engage new and diverse ways of thinking. Appreciate intense debates. Share your own opinions. Seek your own answers.