Free Will and Consciousness - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Free Will and Consciousness write by Roy Baumeister. This book was released on 2010-07-09. Free Will and Consciousness available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This volume is aimed at readers who wish to move beyond debates about the existence of free will and the efficacy of consciousness and closer to appreciating how free will and consciousness might operate. It draws from philosophy and psychology, the two fields that have grappled most fundamentally with these issues. In this wide-ranging volume, the contributors explore such issues as how free will is connected to rational choice, planning, and self-control; roles for consciousness in decision making; the nature and power of conscious deciding; connections among free will, consciousness, and quantum mechanics; why free will and consciousness might have evolved; how consciousness develops in individuals; the experience of free will; effects on behavior of the belief that free will is an illusion; and connections between free will and moral responsibility in lay thinking. Collectively, these state-of-the-art chapters by accomplished psychologists and philosophers provide a glimpse into the future of research on free will and consciousness.
Free Will and Consciousness
Free Will and Consciousness - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Free Will and Consciousness write by Gregg D. Caruso. This book was released on 2012. Free Will and Consciousness available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In recent decades, with advances in the behavioral, cognitive, and neurosciences, the idea that patterns of human behavior may ultimately be due to factors beyond our conscious control has increasingly gained traction and renewed interest in the age-old problem of free will. In this book, Gregg D. Caruso examines both the traditional philosophical problems long associated with the question of free will, such as the relationship between determinism and free will, as well as recent experimental and theoretical work directly related to consciousness and human agency. He argues that our best scientific theories indeed have the consequence that factors beyond our control produce all of the actions we perform and that because of this we do not possess the kind of free will required for genuine or ultimate responsibility. It is further argued that the strong and pervasive belief in free will, which the author considers an illusion, can be accounted for through a careful analysis of our phenomenology and a proper theoretical understanding of consciousness. Indeed, the primary goal of this book is to argue that our subjective feeling of freedom, as reflected in the first-person phenomenology of agentive experience, is an illusion created by certain aspects of our consciousness.
Rationality + Consciousness = Free Will
Rationality + Consciousness = Free Will - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Rationality + Consciousness = Free Will write by David Hodgson. This book was released on 2012-01-04. Rationality + Consciousness = Free Will available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The author examines the idea of free will, arguing that consideration of human rationality and consciousness together gives us free will.
Free Will and Consciousness in the Multiverse
Free Will and Consciousness in the Multiverse - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Free Will and Consciousness in the Multiverse write by Christian D. Schade. This book was released on 2019-01-29. Free Will and Consciousness in the Multiverse available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. It is hard to interpret quantum mechanics. The most surprising, but also most parsimonious, interpretation is the many-worlds, or quantum-multiverse interpretation, implying a permanent coexistence of parallel realities. Could this perhaps be the appropriate interpretation of quantum mechanics? This book collects evidence for this interpretation, both from physics and from other fields, and proposes a subjectivist version of it, the clustered-minds multiverse. The author explores its implications through the lens of decision making and derives consequences for free will and consciousness. For example, free will can be implemented in the form of vectorial choices, as introduced in the book. He furthermore derives consequences for research in the social sciences, especially in psychology and economics.
Is Science Compatible with Free Will?
Is Science Compatible with Free Will? - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Is Science Compatible with Free Will? write by Antoine Suarez. This book was released on 2012-12-22. Is Science Compatible with Free Will? available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Anyone who claims the right ‘to choose how to live their life’ excludes any purely deterministic description of their brain in terms of genes, chemicals or environmental influences. For example, when an author of a text expresses his thoughts, he assumes that, in typing the text, he governs the firing of the neurons in his brain and the movement of his fingers through the exercise of his own free will: what he writes is not completely pre-determined at the beginning of the universe. Yet in the field of neuroscience today, determinism dominates. There is a conflict between the daily life conviction that a human being has free will, and deterministic neuroscience. When faced with this conflict two alternative positions are possible: Either human freedom is an illusion, or deterministic neuroscience is not the last word on the brain and will eventually be superseded by a neuroscience that admits processes not completely determined by the past. This book investigates whether it is possible to have a science in which there is room for human freedom. The book generally concludes that the world and the brain are governed to some extent by non-material agencies, and limited consciousness does not abolish free will and responsibility. The authors present perspectives coming from different disciplines (Neuroscience, Quantumphysics and Philosophy) and range from those focusing on the scientific background, to those highlighting rather more a philosophical analysis. However, all chapters share a common characteristic: they take current scientific observations and data as a basis from which to draw philosophical implications. It is these features that make this volume unique, an exceptional interdisciplinary approach combining scientific strength and philosophical profundity. We are convinced that it will strongly stimulate the debate and contribute to new insights in the mind-brain relationship.
