Who's in charge? : free will and the science of the brain Michael S Gazzaniga
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TextSeries: Gifford lecturesPublication details: Harper Collins Publishers New York 2011Description: 260ISBN: - 9780061906107
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The way we are --
The parallel and distributed brain --
The interpreter --
Abandoning the concept of free will --
The social mind --
We are the law --
An afterword.
A powerful orthodoxy in the study of the brain has taken hold in recent years: Since physical laws govern the physical world and our own brains are part of that world, physical laws therefore govern our behavior and even our conscious selves. Free will is meaningless, goes the mantra; we live in a "determined" world. Not so, argues the renowned neuroscientist Michael S. Gazzaniga in this thoughtful, provocative book
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