Institute of Philosophy, University of London, Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU, UK; Wellcome Centre for Human Neuroimaging at University College London, 12 Queen Square, London WC1N 3BG, UK.
Institute of Philosophy, University of London, Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU, UK; Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience at University College London, 17 Queen Square, London WC1N 3AR, UK; Laboratoire de Neurosciences Cognitives, Département d'Études Cognitives, École Normale Supérieure, 29 Rue d'Ulm, Paris 75005, France.
Trends Neurosci. 2018 Jul;41(7):405-407. doi: 10.1016/j.tins.2018.04.009.
In 1983 Libet et al. demonstrated that brain activity associated with a voluntary act precedes conscious experience of the intention to act by several hundred milliseconds. The implication that it is the brain, rather than 'free will', that initiates voluntary acts has been discussed ever since by philosophers and lawyers, as well as by scientists. We show here how Libet's original study gave rise to an entire research field of experimental investigations of volition.
1983 年,Libet 等人证明,与自愿行为相关的大脑活动先于有意识地体验到行动意图,提前了几百毫秒。从那以后,哲学家和律师以及科学家们一直在讨论这样一种观点,即发起自愿行为的是大脑,而不是“自由意志”。我们在这里展示了 Libet 的原始研究如何引发了一个完整的研究领域,即对意志的实验研究。