My Short Conversation with Noam Chomsky About Free Will

Free will is contentious issue amongst philosophers and scientists alike. Some scientists argue about how we have no free will because the brain is somehow active before a decision is made. But that doesn’t refute the existence of free will so in my conversation with Chomsky he answers my question of curiosity.

I have also another issue with Sam Harris’s view on free will. I believe the brain isn’t fully understood.

Chomsky A vast understatement. It’s barely understood.

I have also another issue with Sam Harris’s view on free will. I believe the brain isn’t fully understood. Just because there is pre neural activity before a decision is being made does not mean free will does not exist. I raised that issue in my current critical analysis of free will. Do you think free will could exist, but in a different capacity? Since we do not even fully understand consciousness.

Chomsky: The Libet experiments, to which I assume you are referring, tell us that decisions have been made before we are consciously aware of them. That tells us nothing whatsoever about freedom of will.