Meryl Horne
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1,206 appearances
5 recordings
1 series
first heard Sep 2025
last heard 30 Jul
Meryl Horne’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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First, you make that decision to flex.
Yeah.
Yeah.
He sees a little like blippy blip in the brain before people say they decided to flex their wrists.
It was even less than, yeah, it was half a second.
Half a second.
Yeah, no, lots of people had criticisms like this, right?
And so, you know, this old experiment from the 80s wasn't like the last word on the question of free will, of course.
Like, John actually decided to do a more modern take on this experiment using, you know, newer equipment.
So, yeah, now it's the early aughts, 25 years later, and he does fMRI.
So now you can get a more detailed picture of like what brain activity is happening where and they can use these fancy computer programs to analyze all that data.
Yeah.
So John and his team bring in a bunch of volunteers, 14 of them.
So, left button or right button, whenever they feel like it.
Mm-hmm.
Whenever they make the choice.
Mm-hmm.
And then meanwhile, John is getting all this data from the scanner, and then he looks at the results with his student.
And it turns out that they did replicate that old experiment from the 80s.
It held up.
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