Consciousness, decision making, and volition: freedom beyond chance and necessity

What is the role of consciousness in volition and decision-making? Are our actions fully determined by brain activity preceding our decisions to act, or can consciousness instead affect the brain activity leading to action? This has been much debated in philosophy, but also in science since the famo...

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Published in:	Theory in biosciences = Theorie in den Biowissenschaften Vol. 141; no. 2; pp. 125 - 140
Main Author:	Liljenström, Hans
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	Berlin/Heidelberg Springer Berlin Heidelberg 01.06.2022 Springer Nature B.V
Subjects:	Amygdala Bioinformatics Bioinformatics (Computational Biology) Bioinformatik (beräkningsbiologi) Biology Biomedical and Life Sciences Brain Cognitive ability Complex Systems Computational neuroscience Consciousness Decision Making Emotions Evolutionary Biology Free will Freedom Information processing Life Sciences Mathematical and Computational Biology Original Original Article Philosophy of Biology Prefrontal cortex Stochastic models Theoretical Ecology/Statistics Volition Neurocomputational modeling cognition consciousness decision-making free will volition
ISSN:	1431-7613, 1611-7530, 1611-7530
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