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The Neural Basis of Free Will : Criterial Causation /
The issues of mental causation, consciousness, and free will have vexed philosophers since Plato. In this book, Peter Tse examines these unresolved issues from a neuroscientific perspective.
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| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, MA :
The MIT Press,
2013.
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 1. Introduction: The Mind-Body Problem Will Be Solved by Neuroscience
- 2. Overview of the Arguments
- 3. A Criterial Neuronal Code Underlies Downward Mental Causation and Free Will
- What Is Will?
- What Is Criterial Causation?
- 4. Neurons Impose Physical and Informational Criteria for Firing on Their Inputs
- How Can Neurons Realize Informational Criteria?
- The Bottom-Up Information-Processing Hierarchy for Visual Recognition
- Decision Making and Action
- Attention and Top-Down Modulation of Bottom-Up Processing
- Basic Issues in Neuronal Information Processing: Balancing Excitation and Inhibition
- Tonic versus Phasic Firing
- The Sweet Spot of Neural Criticality
- Synchrony among inhibitory Interneurons
- Attentional Binding and Gamma Oscillations
- Attentional Binding by Neuronal Bursting
- Neural Epiconnectivity and Rapid Synaptic Resetting
- Amplifying Microscopic Randomness to Spike Timing Variability
- 5. NMDA Receptors and a Neuronal Code Based on Bursting
- Spiny and Nonspiny Neurons
- The NMDA Receptor
- Long-Term Potentiation Is Not the Mechanism of Rapid Synaptic Plasticity
- Spike Timing-Dependent Plasticity
- The Role of Back-Propagating Action Potentials in Rapid Synaptic Plasticity and Bursting
- A Neuronal Burst Code
- Attentional Binding by Bursting: The Role of Cholinergic Feedback
- Attentional Binding by Bursting: The Role of Noncholinergic Feedback
- Conclusion
- 6. Mental Causation as an Instance of Criterial Causation
- Criterial Causation and the Detection of Patterns in Input
- Criterial Causation: Multiple Realizability Is Not Enough
- Addressing Kim's Challenge
- There Is No Backward Causation in Criterial Causation
- Criterial Causation Is a Causation of Pattern-Released Activity
- 7. Criterial Causation Offers a Neural Basis for Free Will
- Strong Free Will
- Criterial Causation Escapes the Basic Argument against Free Will
- James and Incompatibilist Physicalist Libertarianism
- Decision Making and Choice
- Conclusion
- 8. Implications of Criterial Causality for Mental Representation
- The Neural Code Is Not Algorithmic
- Criterialism, Descriptivism, and Reference
- Countering Kripke's Attack
- Wittgenstein and Criteria
- Propositions and Vectorial Encodings
- Mental Operations versus Mental Representations
- Beyond Functionalism
- 9. Barking Up the Wrong Free: Readiness Potentials and the Role of Conscious Willing
- Libet's Experiments Do Not Disprove the Possibility of Free Will
- Is Conscious Willing Causal?
- Illusions of Volitional Efficacy
- 10. The Roles of Attention and Consciousness in Criterial Causation
- Why Are There Qualia?
- Iconic versus Working Memory
- Stage 1 Qualia as Precompiled Informational Outputs of Preconscious Operations
- Qualia as a Shared Format for Endogenous Attentional Operations
- Experience Is for Endogenously Attending, Doing, and Planning
- Volitional Attentional Tracking Requires Consciousness
- If an Animal Can Attentionally Track, Is it Conscious?
- Volitional Attention Can Alter Qualia
- Qualia and Chunking: Types of Qualia
- Qualia and the Frontoparietal Network
- The Superpositionality of Qualia
- Zombies Are Impossible
- Tying It All Together.