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Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) March 19, 2026 DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.19102655 (opens in new tab)
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AI-extracted from the abstract| Characteristics | Theoretical or philosophical paper Peer reviewed |
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| Key points | Argues that free will is not the phenomenology of choosing but the capacity of prefrontal signal amplitude to win gate competition against impulse, habit, and biological drive. Proposes that the Libet experiment locates agency in the veto rather than eliminating it, that meaning is the highest-amplitude prefrontal signal available, and that agency is physically trainable through neuroplasticity. |
Abstract
This paper proposes that free will is not the phenomenology of choosing but the capacity of prefrontal signal amplitude to win gate competition against impulse, habit, and biological drive. Building on the TRN gating framework, it reframes the Libet experiment as locating agency in the veto rather than eliminating it, explains meaning as the highest amplitude prefrontal signal available, and demonstrates that agency is physically trainable through neuroplasticity. Free will is real, mechanistic, and built — not given.