Benjamin Libet, the UC San Francisco physiologist whose studies of the brain led to a new understanding of consciousness and brought into question the concept of free will, died July 23 at his home in ...

You might feel that you have the ability to make choices, decisions and plans — and the freedom to change your mind at any point if you so desire — but many psychologists and scientists would tell you ...

One of the primary combat vehicles in the attack on consciousness is based on a set of studies by Benjamin Libet. In this study, people were asked to randomly decide when to a press a button. They ...

To me, consciousness means that narrative that runs in my head, like a film with added senses. Graziano appears at first to take the same view, but then conflates it with concepts that probably belong ...