Do flies have free will?

Neuroscience can’t show us the source of free will, says Philip Ball, because it’s not a scientific concept.

Gluing a fly’s head to a wire and watching it trying to fly sounds more like the sort of experiment a naughty schoolboy would conduct than one that turns out to have philosophical and legal implications.

Read the story here.

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Do flies have free will?

Neuroscience can’t show us the source of free will, says Philip Ball, because it’s not a scientific concept.

Gluing a fly’s head to a wire and watching it trying to fly sounds more like the sort of experiment a naughty schoolboy would conduct than one that turns out to have philosophical and legal implications.

Read the story here.

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