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free will
| ...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 |
| What does determinism have in common with gods, the flying spaghetti monster and pink, invisible unicorns? |
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| free will determinism indeterminism quantum mechanics physics |
| Posted on Tuesday 22 November 2011 - 09:58:25 |
| Behavioral Freedom and Decision-Making in Flies - an Evolutionary Precursor of 'Free Will'? |
| This July I will be speaking with this title at the University of Québec at Montréal summer institute "The Evolution and Function of Consciousness". With me will be such luminaries as Daniel Dennett, Antonio Damasio...[more] |
| free will indeterminism spontaneous activity behavioral freedom UQAM |
| Posted on Wednesday 16 May 2012 - 18:40:23 |
| 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 |
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| 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 |
| Wordle for my upcoming article on free will |
| The Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences have asked me to write a review article for a special issue on 'minibrains'. The topic of my article was to deal with free will and invertebrates. I just submit...[more] |
| free will freedom behavioral variability spontaneous activity spontaneity Proc. Roy. Soc. |
| Posted on Wednesday 24 November 2010 - 03:46:04 |
| Towards a scientific concept of free will |
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| free will decision-making spontaneity spontaneous activity invertebrates |
| Posted on Wednesday 15 December 2010 - 14:35:28 |
| 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 |
| Programming Free Will: creative robots |
| I wasn't planning to comment on Kerri Smith's piece on Free Will (probably paywalled) in the last issue of Nature magazine. However, this morning I read a paper on Free Will in robots (or rather 'agents'), which urged me...[more] |
| free will spontaneity robots briegel |
| Posted on Tuesday 13 September 2011 - 08:38:05 |
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