Free Agents : : How Evolution Gave Us Free Will / / Kevin J. Mitchell.
An evolutionary case for the existence of free willScientists are learning more and more about how brain activity controls behavior and how neural circuits weigh alternatives and initiate actions. As we probe ever deeper into the mechanics of decision making, many conclude that agency—or free will—i...
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Mitchell, Kevin J., author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Free Agents : How Evolution Gave Us Free Will / Kevin J. Mitchell. Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2023] ©2023 1 online resource (352 p.) : 44 b/w illus. text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Player One -- 2 Life Goes On -- 3 Action! -- 4 Life Gets Complicated -- 5 The Perceiving Self -- 6 Choosing -- 7 The Future Is Not Written -- 8 Harnessing Indeterminacy -- 9 Meaning -- 10 Becoming Ourselves -- 11 Thinking about Thinking -- 12 Free Will -- Epilogue: Artificial Agents -- Figure Credits -- Bibliography -- Index restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star An evolutionary case for the existence of free willScientists are learning more and more about how brain activity controls behavior and how neural circuits weigh alternatives and initiate actions. As we probe ever deeper into the mechanics of decision making, many conclude that agency—or free will—is an illusion. In Free Agents, leading neuroscientist Kevin Mitchell presents a wealth of evidence to the contrary, arguing that we are not mere machines responding to physical forces but agents acting with purpose.Traversing billions of years of evolution, Mitchell tells the remarkable story of how living beings capable of choice emerged from lifeless matter. He explains how the emergence of nervous systems provided a means to learn about the world, granting sentient animals the capacity to model, predict, and simulate. Mitchell reveals how these faculties reached their peak in humans with our abilities to imagine and to be introspective, to reason in the moment, and to shape our possible futures through the exercise of our individual agency. Mitchell’s argument has important implications—for how we understand decision making, for how our individual agency can be enhanced or infringed, for how we think about collective agency in the face of global crises, and for how we consider the limitations and future of artificial intelligence.An astonishing journey of discovery, Free Agents offers a new framework for understanding how, across a billion years of Earth history, life evolved the power to choose, and why it matters. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 01. Dez 2023) Brain Evolution. Evolutionary psychology. Free will and determinism Physiological aspects. Neurosciences. SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Neuroscience. bisacsh Agency. Free Agents: How Evolution Created the Power to Choose. Kevin Mitchell. Princeton : evolution choice. Princeton University Press. action. artificial intelligence. behavior. behavioral control. brain. causation. character. choice. cognition. cognitive science. compatibilism. consciousness. decision-making. determinism. dualism. evolution. free will. freedom. genetics. goal-oriented behavior. habits. indeterminacy. innate traits. meaning. mental causation. mind. moral responsibility. neuroscience. origin of life. perception. personality. philosophy. physics. predispositions. psychology. purpose. quantum physics. reason. reductionism. self control. selfhood. the self. what is life?. wiring. Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press Complete eBook-Package 2023 9783110749748 https://doi.org/10.1515/9780691226224?locatt=mode:legacy https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780691226224 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780691226224/original |
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