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To begin to update our ideas of free will, I suggest we first shift the debate away from the puzzling metaphysics of causal vacuums to the neurobiology of self-control. The nature of self-control and the ways it can be compromised may be a more fruitful avenue to understand cases such as the
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Serious Science - http://serious-science.orgPhilosopher Patricia Smith Churchland on the nature of self-control, the reward system, and risk-taking in humans...
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Patricia Churchland is UC President’s Professor of Philosophy Emerita at the University of California, San Diego.
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As a result, profound questions about responsibility are inescapable, not just regarding criminal justice, but in the day-to-day business of life. Given that, I suggest that free will, as traditionally understood, needs modification.
Nov 15, 2006 · By Patricia Churchland. 15 November 2006. New Scientist tackles eight of the deepest challenges faced by science – from reality and consciousness, to free will and death, in The Big...
Jan 25, 2013 · “To begin to update our ideas of free will, I suggest we first shift the debate away from the puzzling metaphysics of causal vacuums to the neurobiology of self-control…. Self-control can come in many degrees, shades, and styles.
“What is our conscience, and where does it come from? In her highly readable Conscience, the philosopher Patricia Churchland argues that “we would have no moral stance on anything unless we were social”. Conscience is illuminating, entertaining and wise.” Read full review here.
