What if the most famous experiment against free will was measuring the wrong thing all along? Neuroscientist Aaron Schurger explains why the readiness potential, long interpreted as the brain's decision signal, may be nothing more than autocorrelated neural noise crossing a threshold, fundamentally undermining decades of conclusions drawn from the Libet experiment. Subscribe for more from the Convergent Science Network podcast series. Aaron Schurger joins Paul Verschure and Tony Prescott to dissect the neuroscience of volition, starting with a careful distinction between free will, conscious will, and agency. The conversation zeroes in on the readiness potential, a slow buildup of brain activity preceding voluntary movement that Benjamin Libet famously used to argue the brain decides before we are aware of deciding. Schurger's drift-diffusion mod ...