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FREE YOUR MIND: BUDDHISM, CAUSALITY, AND THE FREE WILL PROBLEM
Zygon, 2020 The problem of free will is associated with a specific and significant kind of control over our actions, which is understood primarily in the sense that we have the freedom to do otherwise or the capacity for self‐determination.
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Entropy, 2021 Drawing from both enactivist and cognitivist perspectives on mind, I propose that explaining teleological phenomena may require reappraising both “Cartesian theaters” and mental homunculi in terms of embodied self-models (ESMs), understood as body maps ...
Adam Safron
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Cellular Mechanisms of Conscious Processing.
Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 2020 Recent breakthroughs in neurobiology indicate that the time is ripe to understand how cellular-level mechanisms are related to conscious experience. Here, we highlight the biophysical properties of pyramidal cells, which allow them to act as gates that ...
Jaan Aru, Mototaka Suzuki, M. Larkum
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Anterior insula regulates brain network transitions that gate conscious access
Cell Reports, 2021 SUMMARY Conscious access to sensory information is likely gated at an intermediate site between primary sensory and transmodal association cortices, but the structure responsible remains unknown. We perform functional neuroimaging to determine the neural
Zirui Huang +7 more
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Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 2021 Whether and to what degree information can be processed non-consciously has been a matter of debate since the emergence of psychology as a science. Emotional information, in particular, has often been assumed to have a privileged status because of its ...
Michaela Rohr, Dirk Wentura
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Znaczenie intencji dla moralnej oceny czynu - stanowisko Daniela Wegnera (THE MEANING OF INTENTION FOR MORAL EVALUATION OF AN ACTION - DANIEL WEGNER VIEW) [PDF]
Analiza i Egzystencja, 2008 In the article, the author attempts to compare and confront Daniel Wegner's idea of a conscious will with the selected ethic doctrines in the context of relationship between intention and the moral evaluation of an action.
Marcin Cichosz
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Why Cognitive Sciences Do Not Prove That Free Will Is an Epiphenomenon
Frontiers in Psychology, 2019 Is epiphenomenalism virtually entailed by the current empirical knowledge about how the mind/brain causes human behavior? I'll address this question by highlighting that recent discoveries in empirical psychology and neuroscience actually do not strike ...
Andrea Lavazza
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On the Necessity of Consciousness for Sophisticated Human Action
Frontiers in Psychology, 2018 In this essay, we aim to counter and qualify the epiphenomenalist challenge proposed in this special issue on the grounds of empirical and theoretical arguments.
Roy F. Baumeister +5 more
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Frontiers in Psychology, 2013 This paper examines the concept of free will, or independent action, in light of recent research in psychology and neuroscience. Reviewing findings in memory, prospection, and mental simulation, as well as the neurological mechanisms underlying ...
Gregory B Bonn
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Post-action determinants of the reported time of conscious intentions
Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 2010 The question of whether our behaviour is guided by our conscious intentions is gaining momentum within the field of cognitive neuroscience. It has been demonstrated that the subjective experience that conscious intentions are the driving force of our ...
Davide Rigoni +2 more
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