How quantum brain biology can rescue conscious free will
Conscious ‘free will’ is problematic because 1) brain mechanisms causing consciousness are unknown, 2) measurable brain activity correlating with conscious perception apparently occurs too late for real-time conscious response, consciousness thus being considered ‘epiphenomenal illusion’, and 3) det...
Main Author: | Stuart eHameroff |
---|---|
Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
Published: |
Frontiers Media S.A.
2012-10-01
|
Series: | Frontiers in Integrative Neuroscience |
Subjects: | |
Online Access: | http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fnint.2012.00093/full |
Similar Items
-
Chasing the Rainbow: The Non-conscious Nature of Being
by: David A. Oakley, et al.
Published: (2017-11-01) -
Volitional components of consciousness vary across wakefulness, dreaming and lucid dreaming
by: Martin eDresler, et al.
Published: (2014-01-01) -
From quantum chemistry to quantum biology: a path toward consciousness
by: Jack A. Tuszynski
Published: (2020-12-01) -
Re-conceptualizing Free Will for the 21st Century: Independent Action with a Limited Role for Consciousness
by: Gregory B Bonn
Published: (2013-12-01) -
Global workspace dynamics: Cortical "binding and propagation enables conscious contents.
by: Bernard J Baars, et al.
Published: (2013-05-01)