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Downward Causation and the Neurobiology of Free Will

How is free will possible in the light of the physical and chemical underpinnings of brain activity and recent neurobiological experiments? How can the emergence of complexity in hierarchical systems such as the brain, based at the lower levels in physical interactions, lead to something like genuin...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor Corporativo: SpringerLink (Online service)
Otros Autores: Murphy, Nancey (Editor ), Ellis, George F.R (Editor ), O'Connor, Timothy (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2009.
Edición:1st ed. 2009.
Colección:Understanding Complex Systems,
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Acceso en línea:Texto Completo

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505 0 |a and Overview -- and Overview -- I: Physics, Emergence, and Complex Systems -- Free Will, Physics, Biology, and the Brain -- Human Freedom "Emergence" -- Top-Down Causation and the Human Brain -- Top-Down Causation and Autonomy in Complex Systems -- Toward a Complementary Neuroscience: Metastable Coordination Dynamics of the Brain -- II: Volition and Consciousness: Are They Illusions? -- Physiology of Volition -- How We Recognize Our Own Actions -- Volition and the Function of Consciousness -- III: Broader Understandings of Volition and Consciousness -- Conscious Willing and the Emerging Sciences of Brain and Behavior -- Contemplative Neuroscience as an Approach to Volitional Consciousness -- Free Will Top-Down Control in the Brain -- Thinking beyond the Bereitschaftspotential: Consciousness of Self and Others as a Necessary Condition for Change -- IV: Human Implications of the Debate -- Criminal Responsibility, Free Will, and Neuroscience -- Law, Responsibility, and the Brain -- The Controversy over Brain Research. 
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