title: [Does the free will exist?].
abstract: The issue of free will is a old as the history of philosophy. We all have subjectively the impression of being free when we carry out a voluntary act. Recent experiments, however, have shown that the subjective experience of a voluntary act and its cause can be two different events. Whilst the brain is approx. 800 ms active before the movement, the subjective experience of the conscious will occurs at approx. 200 ms before the movement. In other words: subjects experience a conscious will when they interpret that their own thoughts are the cause of their decisions, which seems to be nothing more than an illusion.
authors.forename: Francisco
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Rubia Vila
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D026684:Personal Autonomy; D010684:Philosophy