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free will
| Intelligently designed (divine?) will (soul?) in fruit flies? |
| Quite to my surprise, the intelligent design movement has picked up on our recent study on fruit fly spontaneous behavior. In this study, we found evidence that spontaneous behavior is more than simple system noise. The ...[more] |
| free will intelligent design drosophila spontaneous behavior flight |
| Posted on Tuesday 22 May 2007 - 03:32:00 |
| ...and now for some Patricia Churchland on Free Will |
| This video can't be embedded, it seems, but it's well worth watching on The Science Network website. It's about what neuroscience can tell us about free will and starts with the folk psychological notion of what free wil...[more] |
| free will Churchland neuroscience video |
| Posted on Friday 24 October 2008 - 02:46:23 |
| All brains possess free will because there is no design in biology |
| I have no idea when it started, but probably long before Darwin, the notion of 'design' kept creeping into descriptions of biological organisms or traits: Birds are designed to fly or the eye is designed to see. I've als...[more] |
| free will evolution creationism degeneracy brains spontaneity |
| Posted on Wednesday 09 June 2010 - 16:05:40 |
| The will and its freedom: biological evidence from invertebrates |
 A few weeks ago, Lars Chittka invited me to write an article "about free will in insects" for a Proceedings of the Royal Society B (Biological Sciences) Special Feature on 'Information processing in miniature brains' th...[more] |
| free will spontaneity behavior invertebrates proceedings heisenberg doyle |
| Posted on Friday 23 July 2010 - 10:53:45 |
| Draft of article on free will online |
| After much to little time spent writing, a first draft of the article for the Proceedings of the Royal Society is online. There was no way to get this article in the sort of shape I had initially planned, but given the d...[more] |
| free will spontaneity behavior invertebrates proceedings |
| Posted on Thursday 26 August 2010 - 01:42:12 |
| Fruit fly spontaneity blogroll |
| In total, over 40 blogs have covered our work on spontaneous behavior in flies, some with very long and scholarly discussions and comments. Most of the blogs paid very close attention to what we wrote and how we worded i...[more] |
| drosophila free will flight spontaneous behavior blogroll |
| Posted on Tuesday 22 May 2007 - 02:51:53 |
| SPECULATION: free will?? WTF? |
| Of course, our original study makes no mention of free will, it is not a scientific concept. However, the discovery of spontaneity even in flies makes us ponder what, if anything, this might entail for our subjective exp...[more] |
| drosophila free will spontaneous behavior flight |
| Posted on Thursday 17 May 2007 - 09:38:35 |
| We've been boingboinged! |
| Almost exactly a year after our paper on spontaneous behavior in Drosophila appeard in PLoS One, one of my students from last term's neuroinformatics course, Matthias Winkelmann, suggested it as interesting stuff on ...[more] |
| boingboing free will spontaneous behavior drosophila brain |
| Posted on Sunday 13 April 2008 - 08:54:24 |
| SCIENCE: spontaneous behavior |
| With all the discussion raging in the blogosphere (see, e.g., slashdot, coturnix, evolution denialism, the futile circle, Nature, etc.), I think I should take one post to emphasize the scientific aspect of our work and ...[more] |
| drosophila free will spontaneous behavior flight |
| Posted on Thursday 17 May 2007 - 08:56:28 |
| We got slashdotted! |
It appears the media coverage our study on spontaneous fruit fly behavior (updated press release) made it to the cover not only of LiveScience, but also on /. I've replied to the story and there's already a link from one...[more] |
| drosophila free will spontaneous behavior flight slashdot |
| Posted on Thursday 17 May 2007 - 03:04:58 |
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