A well written (apart from some typos towards the end), balanced and thoughtful piece on Mind/brain and free will/decision making, with a handful of Buddhism thrown in for good measure (which there should be, given the nature of the blog). The only bit which I balked at, but which has a grain of truth, was the comment that the scientists found a particular result because it was the one they wanted to find. Certainly often true, but in this case I am not sure that it is an entirely fair criticism.

One of many similar pieces of research. One of a few clips recently on this, but popped for the comment's broadened contextualisation. The research tells us nothing about free will, but the assumption that it does reveals many mythical underlying assumptions that do tell us something about human conceptualising.

I think whether it tells us anything about free will or not depends on whether one considers free will to be /conscious/ free will or not. It also depends on whether one considers people have free will all the time, much as it depends on whether one thinks people are conscious for all their waking hours.

I mean it adds nothing to the free-will/ determinism 'debate' which is as old as philosophy, and is initially at least a question of conceptual clarification.