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Originally Posted by Paul C. Anagnostopoulos  What does this have to do with free will? Just because the decision is made before you are aware of it does not mean you do not have libertarian free will. Who said libertarian free will requires conscious decisions?
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Well the conventional logic is that if the decision got made some time earlier - before you thought you made the decision - your consciousness simply acted as a rubber stamp. To me, it is another example of the way that the concept of consciousness gets progressively weakened to fit into conventional science. If you take the physicalist approach, it seems to me that it is very hard to avoid falling into the pit of no free will, no responsibility, no real values, etc.
I wish he would use his setup for presentiment - my guess is that it would show an effect, indicating that the mental-physical link that we have talked about is real and somehow delocalised a bit in time.
David