CrowdScience

Are we really in charge?

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Have you ever found yourself doing something – perhaps getting a glass of water, eating a snack, or even sitting on the toilet – without remembering making the decision to do it? CrowdScience listener Mohammed certainly has. It’s left him wondering: does he really have free will, or is he a puppet of his biological processes?

To try and find the answer, we start in the brain. Presenter Caroline…