Exactly 40 years ago, Libet and colleagues demonstrated that the onset of brain activity that has been commonly associated with voluntary, spontaneous action (the readiness potential, RP) precedes the reported onset of the conscious decision to move (W time). Many took this result as evidence that consciousness plays no causal role in decision making and action formation. This, if true, has serious repercussions for social pillars like free will and moral responsibility. However, the seminal Libet results have come under severe methodological and conceptual criticism. Still, they left the neuroscience of volition with three key debates. The first relates to the nature of the RP. Does it reflect preparation to move, or is it a byproduct of an autocorrelated accumulation-to-bound process, backward averaged from movement onset (recent reinterpretation)? The second debate focuses on the best way to measure W time, if it is at all possible. The third relates to the generalizability of the Libet results from arbitrary decisions, which were the historical focus of the neuroscience of volition, to deliberate ones, which are at the heart of discussions related to free will and moral responsibility. Below we discuss some of our recent results, which bear upon all three debates.

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