I have, myself, noticed occasions such as watching helplessly as my hand closes the car door a moment after I have noticed something within the car that I had wished to retrieve, and my willed command to stop the motion of my hand acts disturbingly slowly – too slowly to stop the closing of the door. But does this take a whole second or two? It seems unlikely to me that such a long timescale was involved. Of course, my conscious awareness of the object within the car together with my imagined ‘free willing’ of the command to stop my hand could all have occurred well after both events.
