Downward Causation and the Neurobiology of Free Will

Downward Causation and the Neurobiology of Fr...

Downward Causation and the Neurobiology of Free Will was written by Nancey Murphy, George Ellis, and Timothy O'Connor. The 291 page book was published by Springer in 2009 with an ISBN 10 of 3642032052. Most books are now available in ebook, pdf and audible formats. If you need more information about this publication, it can be purchased at Amazon.com or Google Books. If the book is older and/or out of print book try to locate a copy on eBay.com. Downward Causation and the Neurobiology of Free Will mentions 1 serial killers including Paul Dennis Reid. The author Nancey Murphy has 1 book(s) listed on Killer.Cloud used for the purpose of documenting facts about Serial Killers listed in our database.

Book Summary

How is free will possible in the light of the physical and chemical underpinnings of brain activity and recent neurobiological experiments? How can the emergence of complexity in hierarchical systems such as the brain, based at the lower levels in physical interactions, lead to something like genuine free will? The nature of our understanding of free will in the light of present-day neuroscience is becoming increasingly important because of remarkable discoveries on the topic being made by neuroscientists at the present time, on the one hand, and its crucial importance for the way we view ourselves as human beings, on the other. A key tool in understanding how free will may arise in this context is the idea of downward causation in complex...