Not Our Brain, But Someone Else Makes Decisions For Us. Who?
That is Libet’s experiment. In fact the name is mentioned twice once at 1:12 and then once again later. The doubt that this video is trying to raise is baseless. Just because brain registers activity several milliseconds earlier doesn’t mean that there’s no free will and we’re just robots. There’s already a lot of criticism on this idea in the academia. I shared with you above Libet’s own conclusion of his experiments. If you’re seriously interested, I can also share some book recommendations and other resources later.
Faisal, perhaps I was not clear with my point. My assertion is that when we say “we”, we are referring to our soul. The soul is occupying our physical body. While we are alive, body and soul are only inseparable. According to Quran, it is our soul that will be judged on the last day on its actions. Our soul is wearing our body and after death, on the last day, a new body will be given to our soul. Perhaps in this world this is our soul that is commanding our physical body to take certain actions. What the study represents is perhaps the lag between soul making a decision first and after few miliseconds the body obeys command as a physical representation. So I do believe we have partial free will (per Ghamidi Sahib) but the will belongs to our soul.
Waleed Brother. I think we are the soul and our body is just a physical machine to obey soul’s commands.