Experiment #1 part 1
Proving the Gap
In the late 1800s a physician and professor, Wihelm Wundit, developed the first ever experimental psychology.
One of the experiments he developed was a form of meditation called introspection. It was a way to try and understand conscious-ness. One of the interesting things that his students found, using introspection, was that our body did things before we become aware that we did them.
But it wasn’t until the 1960s that a neurologist, Benjamin Libet, started doing experiments and showed that the gap
between when we did some-thing, and then became aware that we did it, was just under half a second. His early work was criticized so in the late 1970s he did experiments on open brain patients undergoing brain surgery, which is next- confirming his early work.
Materialists use the unawareness gap as proof that we are just a machine with no free will. True, the brain is machine like, but they refuse to look at what might be on the other side of the Gap, where the free will is. Experiment #7 is on this, later.