Meryl Horne

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1,206 appearances 5 recordings 1 series first heard Sep 2025 last heard 30 Jul

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Science Vs · Free Will: Does It Exist? · 30 Jul 2026 podcast

Is it your brain actually deciding, should I move the left finger or the right finger ahead of time?

Or is that signal just kind of like,

Foreplay like parts of your brain kind of gearing up getting ready to make this decision that doesn't actually happen until later Okay, what is going on in the blip?

So yeah, so John wanted to answer this so they use machine learning algorithms to try to answer this question Can they predict whether people will move their left finger or their right finger before they say they made the decision?

Yeah, here's what he found.

So it was about 60% accurate?

Well, I wasn't that impressed, to be honest.

No.

It's a 60%.

But then, so after a job study comes out, there was another group that did similar experiments using a different technique and zooming in on this time period right before people say they made the decision.

And they get it up to over 80%.

80% now.

80%?

Okay.

And other studies were coming out, too.

Most of them all replicating the fact that, like, yeah, there is something going on in the brain before people say they made a decision.

And these studies end up being hugely influential.

You know, John's study gets cited almost 3,000 times by other papers.

3,000 times?

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