Causally Effective Free Will


Συγγραφέας: Henry P. Stapp


Henry P. Stapp: Causally Effective Free Will (doc, 31K)
The mainstream view today in the fields of neuroscience, biology, psychology, and philosophy is that your conscious will has no effect upon your bodily actions, beyond what is already caused by purely mechanical brain processes acting alone. Thus you are deemed to be, in essence, a mechanical automaton, with perhaps some elements of pure chance thrown in. Your natural belief that your willful efforts can have physical effects is called, accordingly, "The Illusion of Conscious Will"