Here is also an interesting slant on the notion and realisation of Freewill. Here, whilst it posits causality and conscious perception lead the mind, it suggests that a biological delay function, (evolved as an evolutionary process for survival technique?), permits procrastination which gives the appearance of freedom of choice?
Quote – "Lastly, to account for the ‘free-will’/‘agency’ problem, I turn to
Benjamin Libet’s celebrated experiments. While it is true that the
initiation and preparatory phase of an act takes place before we
become aware of willing it or wanting it, it is wrong to conclude that
the conscious brain does not play a causal role through some other
mechanism. Indeed, Libet himself emphasized that once we become
aware of wanting to act, a point he designates as ‘W’ we still have 200
milliseconds before we issue the command to the motor system to
proceed with its execution. This, Libet points out , gives us a window
of opportunity to abort the impending act by inhibiting it or by switching
to another preliminary action impulse already waiting in the
wings. Libet regards this as an effective veto function, a mechanism of
interference with a given actions implementation and notes that: ‘The
potentiality for a form of free choice in the classical sense is not
excluded by the theory, though apparently in the form of control rather
than in the initiation of an act’ "
Quote taken from "
The immaculate Misconception", by Zoltan L. Torey.
Further links regarding various enquiries into consciousness..
"Journal of Consciousness Studies" >
http://www.imprint.co.uk/jcs.html
