Our house is on fire. Join the resistance: Do no harm/take no shit. My idiosyncratic and confluent bricolage of progressive politics, the collaborative commons, next generation cognitive neuroscience, American pragmatism, de/reconstruction, dynamic systems, embodied realism, postmetaphysics, psychodynamics, aesthetics. It ain't much but it's not nothing.
Wednesday, January 9, 2013
Downward causation and the neurobiology of free will
I'm now reading Downward Causation and the Neurobiology of Free Will,
a copy of which is at the link. They acknowledge and address two main
critics of the premise, Libet and Weger. Libet did experiments where there was a delay between an action and our
conscious awareness of "willing the action." Weger brings in severed
right/left brain research, among other things. The chapters in the
book address this research which both concur with and dispute them in varying degrees. More later.
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