There’s No Such Thing as Free Will but we’re better off believing in it anyway

>Many scientists say that the American physiologist Benjamin Libet demonstrated in the 1980s that we have no free will. It was already known that electrical activity builds up in a person’s brain before she, for example, moves her hand; Libet showed that this buildup occurs before the person consciously makes a decision to move. The conscious experience of deciding to act, which we usually associate with free will, appears to be an add-on, a post hoc reconstruction of events that occurs after the brain has already set the act in motion.

He did no such thing. He simply demonstrated that we aren't immediately aware of our own volition.

Moreover:

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/16/opinion/consciousness-isnt...

>...but we're better off believing in it anyway.

So we have a choice?

All attacks on free will are forms of self-contradiction.