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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Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press Complete eBook-Package 2023 |
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Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2023] ©2023 |
Year of Publication: | 2023 |
Language: | English |
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (352 p.) :; 44 b/w illus. |
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Table of Contents:
- 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