>Many scientists say that the American physiologist Benjamin Libet demonstrated in the 1980s that we have no free will. It was already known that electrical activity builds up in a person’s brain before she, for example, moves her hand; Libet showed that this buildup occurs before the person consciously makes a decision to move. The conscious experience of deciding to act, which we usually associate with free will, appears to be an add-on, a post hoc reconstruction of events that occurs after the brain has already set the act in motion.<p>He did no such thing. He simply demonstrated that we aren't immediately aware of our own volition.<p>Moreover:<p><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/16/opinion/consciousness-isnt-a-mystery-its-matter.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/16/opinion/consciousness-isnt...</a>