A reflex is involuntary.
Spontaneously moving your finger in the next minute is voluntary, you just don't think about it. Quite different.
Sorry about not giving sources.
Sources:
An article by Jame Rachels (~2000)
Wilder Penfield, The Excitable Cortex in Conscious Man (1958)
Jose M. R. Delgado, Physical Control of the Mind (1969)
The Kornhuber experiement: Behamin Libet, "Unconscious Cerbral Initiative and the Role of Conscious Will in Voluntary Actions," The Behavioral and Brain Sciences 8 (1985)
Woo, quite a lot of sources for such a short text by me. Technically speaking, I only used the article, which used all of those sources, and a photocopy of a certain area of one.
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