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Daily life is full of choices: when to get up, what to have for breakfast, whether to walk or take the bus, which item to tackle on the ‘to do’ list. It can, at times, seem overwhelming to be constantly required to choose between competing options. On top of this there may be a worry about whether we made the right decisions. But what if all this agonising and reflection was in vain, and the choices had already been made for us? What if our sense of deciding on a given outcome was entirely illusory? Such is the advertised finding of a famous set of experiments carried out in 1983 by neuroscientist, Benjamin Libet.<!--more-->