Free Will Survey

Free Will Survey

A survey to investigate whether people generally believe to have a free will

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Free Will Survey
Are you familiar with Benjamin Libet's research on the so-called 'readiness potential' and the debate it started regarding the existence of free will?

Have you read any of the following articles:
Libet, B. (1985). Unconscious cerebral initiative and the role of conscious will in voluntary action. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 8(4), 529-566.

P. Haggard & M. Eimer (1999): On the relation between brain potentials and the awareness of voluntary movements, Exp. Brain Research, 126, 128-133
Ερώτηση 1 out of 8
No Yes
Free Will Survey
Do you think that consciousness is a necessary prerequisite for free will?
Ερώτηση 2 out of 8
No Yes
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Have you read 'C.S. Soon, Marcel Brass (2008) : Unconscious determinants of free decisions in the human brain, Nature Neuroscience, 13 April 2008, 1-3'

-the paper shows that by means of fMRI recordings it is possible to predict with which hand a person will make a button press up to 10 seconds before the actual movement is carried out and before the person becomes aware of her choice
Ερώτηση 3 out of 8
No Yes
Free Will Survey
Do you think that people are morally responsible for their actions?
Ερώτηση 4 out of 8
No Yes
Free Will Survey
Do you think moral responsibility stems from the fact that people have a free will?
Ερώτηση 5 out of 8
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Have you read 'G. Strawson (1994): The Impossibility of Moral Responsibility, Philosophical Studies, 75, 5-24'

-the paper claims that as people do not have a free will and thus are not morally responsible for their actions
Ερώτηση 6 out of 8
No Yes
Free Will Survey
In the hypothetical case that free will does not exist, do you believe that the current legal system makes sense?
Should people be punished for their actions, if they could not have acted otherwise?
Ερώτηση 7 out of 8
No Yes
Free Will Survey
Do you think that people have a 'Free Will'?
Ερώτηση 8 out of 8
No Yes
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