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So we studied the brain process of free will. So what's free will take an example from dinner whether you want water, beer, or wine, or what, whether you want chocolate for dessert. Compare this with involuntary actions like trembling or other movements, withdrawing the hand from a hot plate.

What we found surprisingly is that free will or voluntary action is dependent on a very cy. Inner activity related to breathing. The ongoing activity of breathing strongly modulates and predicts when the subject is going to press the button. So we used really simple experimenters set up so the participants can press the button whenever they want.