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Is Science Compatible with Free Will?
. Ed(S): Suarez, Antoine; Adams, Peter
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Paperback. Informed by material as divergent as quantum physics, 'mirror' neurons, and Libet's experimental results, this philosophical exploration of the conflict between free will and resurgent neuroscientific determinism combines scientific rigor and deep analysis. Editor(s): Suarez, Antoine; Adams, Peter. Num Pages: 328 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JMR; PDA; PSAN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 18. Weight in Grams: 504.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Springer-Verlag New York Inc. United States
Number of pages
328
Condition
New
Number of Pages
314
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9781489996329
SKU
V9781489996329
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About . Ed(S): Suarez, Antoine; Adams, Peter
Antoine Suarez, Center for Quantum Philosophy (Geneva and Zürich) and Social Trends Institute (Barcelona and New York). Dr Suarez' research is focused on quantum experiments demonstrating agency from outside space-time, and bioethical topics. He is co-editor of Mathematical Undecidability, Quantum Nonlocality and the question of the existence of God (Kluwer, 1997) and Is this cell a human being? (Springer, 2011) ... Read more
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