The Best Books on Free Will and Neuroscience — What the Science Actually Shows
The neuroscience of free will is one of the most misrepresented fields in popular science. The Libet experiments are routinely cited as proof that free will is an illusion. They show something more interesting and less conclusive than that.
The Essential Reading
Both sides — taken seriously
The Framework Account
Genuine agency — derivative and real simultaneously
Libet himself noted that participants retained the ability to veto the movement after becoming aware of the intention — what he called free won't. The conscious mind could cancel what the brain had initiated. That is not the elimination of agency. It is a different architecture of agency than most people assumed.
The Infinitely Simple framework holds that genuine agency is real — not illusory. You have real choice. Authentic will. True freedom. But the capacity for that agency is not self-originating. It derives from the operational properties of the Necessary Foundation expressing through the structural correspondence of your particular form. The agency is real. Its ground is not the creature itself. Both true simultaneously.
Read the book
Infinitely Simple: The Foundation — nine chapters, first principles, no assumptions. The guided practice applies it to the brain and body. Free on YouTube.