The free will delusion.
The article discusses scientific and philosophical questions of the concept of free will, arguing that it cannot be explained as a cause of conscious human behavior. Examples are given of research experiments that traced or even predicted conscious human decisions within the brain. The author assert...
| Published in: | New Statesman Vol. 140; no. 5084/5085; pp. 46 - 48 |
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New Statesman Ltd.
12/19/2011
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