Psychology test: brain allways one step ahead; do we have a free will?

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I read a very interesting article on the website of a Dutch psychology website that I wanted to share with you. I'll try and translate as good as I can below: ______________________________________________ "We do not have a free will" is stated by Mark Mieras, freelance sciencejournalist (that works for example for 'psychologie magazine", on you tube. Our brain allready knows what we intend to do before we know ourselves. On youtube Mark Mieras shows you how to do a simple experiment about free will. Make a fist and choose purely out of free will when to open your hand. Don't plan when to open your hand, this way your brain will know what you intend to do! Open your hand spontaniously. The weird thing is that no matter how hard you try to be spontanious, you will allways have the feeling you are late. This also is viewable with a brain scan. Brainexaminers can tell by the brainscan that your brain is making up a plan. They are allways a step ahead of you. What do you think? Dó we have a free will? Are our brains allways a step ahead of us? Is this a good thought or does it make you angry? ______________________________________________ I haven't included the link to youtube as the clip is also just the dutchman saying the same I translated above; and off course in Dutch (so a lot of the mylot readers here wouldn't have any use of it). I would love to hear your opinions! My personal opinion; I do think we have a free will. I think our brain acts through a signal given by our unconsius. So we dó decide, but not without full consius. If that were true, we all would go mental with all the simple decisions we make all through the day! So I guess to protect ourselves our brain makes some of the most simple choices for us based on our unconsius and/or intuition. This also explains why we do certain things when we are in danger (saving your child first or running into a burning building to save someone else), even though it doesn't prevent ourselves from getting hurt (which would be survival instinct). We put certain rights or savity of others above our own, our unconsius knows that and our brain gives the signal to our limbs to act instantly. That would be my explanition.