DOWNWARD CAUSATION AND THE NEUROBIOLOGY OF FREE WILL

The nature of our understanding of free will in the light of present-day neuroscience is becoming increasingly important because of remarkable discoveries on the topic being made by neuroscientists at the present time, on the one hand, and its crucial importance for the way we view ourselves as human beings, on the other. It also has major implications for our understanding of ethical responsibility and hence for public policy and legal issues.

CONTENTS

Introduction and Overview
Part I: Physics, Emergence, and Complex Systems
Part II: Volition and Consciousness: Are They Illusions?
Part III: Broader Understandings of Volition and Consciousness
Part IV: Human Implications of the Debate

Páginas : 300
Peso : 3mb.
Formato : PDF.
Edición : 1 edition
Año de Publicación :2009
ISBN : 978-3642032042
Editorial : Springer
Autor: Nancey Murphy , George F.R. Ellis

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