Abstract
This chapter focuses on the neural basis of free will and how it is related to conscious feelings of willing. It is argued here that conscious feelings of willing or agency are not central to understanding the neural basis of free will. Simple or even complex actions do not necessarily generate conscious feelings of willing. Consciousness of willing appears to arise primarily in cases that require endogenous selection and inhibition of options held and assessed in working memory. As such, Libet’s paradigm may not particularly evoke conscious feelings of willing, and, even if it did, neither the readiness potential nor the lateralized readiness potential appears to be a signature of a neural process involved in conscious willing.
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