You may be familiar with the experiments that show that the nervous system initiates an action before we consciously decide to do it. I just came across an article that describes some experiments done quite some time ago by Jose Delgado. He wired people to do some motions. The people were unaware that they were being forced to move and claimed that they did so of their own volition. Doesn’t that suggest that our belief in free will is illusory?

This is the article. It makes a pretty good case against free will, but I only want to talk about the work done by Delgado. I looked for other places on the Web for these specific experiments but could not find anything. People are more impressed that he was able to stop a bull by stimulating a part of the bull’s brain.