<p><span style="font-size:20px;"><span style="color:#27ae60;">The Right Answer</span></span></p>
<p>This is an <span style="color:#8e44ad;">Author's Purpose</span>, or <span style="color:#8e44ad;">Function</span>, question as indicated by the phrase "primarily in order to." In questions such as these, we have to identify WHY the author does something. As such, the answer will not be clearly stated in the passage.</p>
<p>The good news is authors pretty much only mention something to support one of their points. So why would the author mention the "classical conception of free will"? To support one of their points. So the strategy is to look around that phrase and find out what point the author is trying to make. </p>
<p><b>Point the author is trying to make: </b></p>
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<li>The author states, "But researchers actually found a SURPRISING temporal relation between subjective experience and objectively measured neural events."</li>
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<p>The answer that most closely matches this "surprising" point is <span style="color:#27ae60;">E, indicate the reason that the results of the neuroscientists' study were surprising.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:20px;"><span style="color:#e74c3c;">The Wrong Answers</span></span></p>
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<li><span style="color:#e74c3c;">A</span>: The author is not "arguing" anything here. The author doesn't have a clear opinion either way.</li>
<li><span style="color:#e74c3c;">B</span>: The author is not "suggesting" anything here. "Suggest" has two meanings: recommend and imply. The author is clearly not recommending anything. Likewise, the author is not implying anything either. He or she is quite clear with the information.</li>
<li><span style="color:#e74c3c;">C</span>: The author is not giving an "explanation," or reason, for the unexpected results.</li>
<li><span style="color:#e74c3c;">D</span>: The author is not "casting doubt," or discounting, any ideas in the passage.</li>
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