So far, some micro-parts of the brain can be excited with direct electric impulses, in this way it's possible to control some parts of the body (and, in a certain way, someone could say it's also possible to "touch the emotions").
What if the control of the brain can occur "wireless"?
Professor Patrick Haggard seem sure: "We certainly don't have free will". In the following links there are a lot of discussions about these philosophical and neuroscientific topics.
News and comments
- http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/2011/12/14/you-are-a-machine/
- http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/8058541/Neuroscience-free-will-and-determinism-Im-just-a-machine.html
- http://andrewsullivan.thedailybeast.com/2011/11/does-neuroscience-kill-free-will.html
- http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/11/13/is-neuroscience-the-death-of-free-will/
The problem of free will in philosophy
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