{"id":170799,"date":"2023-08-28T19:25:25","date_gmt":"2023-08-29T00:25:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/08\/researchers-to-probe-brain-mechanisms-behind-free-will"},"modified":"2023-08-28T19:25:25","modified_gmt":"2023-08-29T00:25:25","slug":"researchers-to-probe-brain-mechanisms-behind-free-will","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/08\/researchers-to-probe-brain-mechanisms-behind-free-will","title":{"rendered":"Researchers to probe brain mechanisms behind free will"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/researchers-to-probe-brain-mechanisms-behind-free-will2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Picture this scenario: You and a friend are walking around your neighborhood when you stop at a crosswalk. As you wait, the noises of the world and your internal thoughts all vie for your attention. Suddenly, you see a motorist nearly hit a bicyclist.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhoa, did you see that?\u201d you say to your friend.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI sure did; that was a fully restored 1967 Ford Mustang,\u201d your friend replies, referring to a car separate from the near-traffic collision.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Picture this scenario: You and a friend are walking around your neighborhood when you stop at a crosswalk. As you wait, the noises of the world and your internal thoughts all vie for your attention. Suddenly, you see a motorist nearly hit a bicyclist. \u201cWhoa, did you see that?\u201d you say to your friend. \u201cI [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-170799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170799","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=170799"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170799\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=170799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=170799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=170799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}