Consciousness
seCtIon tHRee: BoDY AnD WoRLD cause what we do. Although it is sobering and ultimately accurate to call all this an illusion, ...
Chapter Nine Agency and free will So, is free will always an illusion? Whether free will is what it seems or not, we may draw on ...
seCtIon tHRee: BoDY AnD WoRLD the universe, all human actions follow from prior events and ultimately can be understood in ter ...
Chapter Nine Agency and free will My message to you is this: pretend that you have free will. It’s essential that you behave as ...
seCtIon tHRee: BoDY AnD WoRLD the public over its non-existence. Many of the researchers discussed here fall into this category ...
Chapter Nine Agency and free will Luckily, says Claxton, this is untrue because I never was split into controller and controlled ...
seCtIon tHRee: BoDY AnD WoRLD Haggard, P. (2008). Human volition: towards a neuroscience of will. Nature Reviews Neuroscience, ...
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CHAPTER Evolution and animal minds ten Humans are animals, so any question about human consciousness is also a ques- tion about ...
seCtIon FoUR: eVoLUtIon purpose for which it was constructed – telling the time. If any pieces were missing or in the wrong pla ...
Chapter Ten Evolution and animal minds preserved in the struggle for life, and they will produce offspring similarly char- acter ...
seCtIon FoUR: eVoLUtIon Lamarck was not the first to suggest it, and Darwin wrote about sim- ilar processes). Lamarck believed ...
and wider embrace. And in the highest reaches of evolution [. . .] a Kosmic consciousness that is Spirit awakened to its own tru ...
seCtIon FoUR: eVoLUtIon 2013). Epigenetic effects do not actually change any genes but involve heritable changes in the way ge ...
So is the individual the ultimate beneficiary? Not necessarily. In his classic 1966 book Adaptation and Natural Selection, the A ...
seCtIon FoUR: eVoLUtIon because they are by-products of other traits that have been selected for. Others survive because they w ...
Let us begin with a thought experiment. What is it like to be an octopus? Can you imagine how it feels to swim swiftly underwate ...
seCtIon FoUR: eVoLUtIon DIFFERENT WORLDS Every species has evolved sensory systems to suit its way of life. This leads to the ...
Chapter Ten Evolution and animal minds what to seek out, and when to dive for safety. We have nothing comparable to help us imag ...
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