Jan Scheffel, Professor from KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden, argues that the insolvability of the mind-body problem enables free will
In summary, we have found that reductionistic scientific understanding of subjective conscious processes is not possible; emergence lies in the way. Ontological emergence, in turn, leads to ontological openness which enables downward causation and free will
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I bet there will be a lot of words/terms in this article that will need to be looked up in a dictionary, etc. ;)
ReplyDeleteWhen you don't know how the brain functions, that is an anatomical problem.
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If we have free will, its only a little bit. The brain is physical and runs on chemical and electrical stimuli, but it's possible there is a software part, which can be independent of the laws of physics.
ReplyDeleteIs the information encoded in genes by the process of evolution independent of the laws of physics?
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