Abstract
The case for conscious agency and free will concludes by emphasizing that despite numerous experimental attacks, the hypothesis of free will is still standing. Scientists devote more effort to pursuing futile attacks on free will than on finding creative ways to test its validity. Very little attempt has been made to compare what is happening during unconscious states like sleep with conscious states involving “doing” various things such as registering pain, vetoing action, performing language operations, being creative, and so on. The kind of research that could be done easily involves a comparison of field potential synchronization and traveling wave phenomena in the same subjects under such varying conditions as the unconsciousness of non-rapid eye movement (REM) sleep, concussion, and anesthesia, with the consciousness states of REM sleep and alert wakefulness while various complex mental tasks are performed.
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