“IOW, the little guy sitting in our heads who makes conscious decisions is really under the influence of something happening at a deeper level and the notion of free will needs tempering.”
That conclusion isn’t actually sustainable from the evidence of such an experiment, since you cannot scientifically quantify what “free will” is. You have conflated it with some pattern of electrical pulses in the brain, yet you have no way of actually verifying that hypothesis.
As I said, I don’t remember the details. And it wasn’t my experiment, so the “you” and “your” don’t exactly fit.
Anyway, the subject was told not to think about it, just pull the trigger spontaneously and make a note of where the sweep second hand on the clock stopped. The signals to the muscles were measured by the monitoring equipment, and were building up before a conscious decision was made.
It may be there we are thinking before we think we are thinking, or something. LOL