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The next time you blindly satisfy a food craving you will now know after the deed is done that it was the bacterial puppet masters that made you do it.
And if I resist the feeling did I use my own free will to do so? Or was that some other isolated part of the human form? And if the "I" is nothing more than a war between neurons, gut bacteria, and whatever other clumps of cells you're dividing identity into, isn't odd this combination of clumps possesses rationality, subjectivity, and intentionality? (More on this here.)
Of course Rosenberg says under materialist-based natrualism rationality, intentionality, and even semantics are ultimately illusions, whereas Feser suggests this erasure of meaning/understanding is good reason to doubt such a paradigm.
Non-theist criticisms of Rosenberg I've not yet read:
Michael Ruse, Philip Kitcher, and Massimo Pigliucci.
Sure you can say no to the craving and sometimes you do, but there are other times when you just can't stop yourself from stuffing the ol' piehole.
Eating disproves free will?
On a slightly serious note such research as this does not favor absolute free will.
I figured there'd be a pitch for compatabilism?