Free Imagination argues that the brain's capacity to imagine is the fundamental basis of human Free Will. Laws of physics need not apply in our internal simulations, so virtually anything is possible there.
Free Imagination argues that the brain's capacity to imagine is the fundamental basis of human Free Will. Laws of physics need not apply in our internal simulations, so virtually anything is possible there.
Peter Ulric Tse is currently chair of the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences at Dartmouth College in Hanover, NH, USA. He graduated from Dartmouth in 1984 with a degree in physics/mathematics. Until 1992 he lived abroad, teaching schoolchildren in Nepal, then studying philosophy at the University of Konstanz. In 1992 he began his studies in cognitive psychology at Harvard University where he received a PhD under the guidance of Patrick Cavanagh and Ken Nakayama. From 1999 until 2001 he was a post-doc in the monkey fMRI lab of Nikos Logothetis at the Max Planck Institute in Tuebingen. He has been a professor of Cognitive Neuroscience at Dartmouth since 2001.
Inhaltsangabe
Section 1. The Birth of our Free Imagination 1: What is imagination? 2: Human imagination is like sexual selection 3: A primer on human evolution 5: Evidence of imagination from artifacts 5: Learning from skulls 6: Mental modularity 7: What is volitional attention? 8: Symbolic thought and a premotor theory of imagination 9: Human imagination from brain demodularization 10: Analogy, Music, Abstraction and Madness from Demodularization 11: First-order and second-order desires and Free Will 12: Automatizing Good Character Section 2. The Birth of Good and Evil in our Free Imagination 13: How should we freely choose? 14: What makes us moral beings? 15: Where does Morality come from? 16: Where does human evil come from? 17: Where does human goodness come from? 18: The Vacuum of Meaning caused by Science 19: Attempts to Fill The Vacuum of Meaning 20: The Future of Science and Religion
Section 1. The Birth of our Free Imagination 1: What is imagination? 2: Human imagination is like sexual selection 3: A primer on human evolution 5: Evidence of imagination from artifacts 5: Learning from skulls 6: Mental modularity 7: What is volitional attention? 8: Symbolic thought and a premotor theory of imagination 9: Human imagination from brain demodularization 10: Analogy, Music, Abstraction and Madness from Demodularization 11: First-order and second-order desires and Free Will 12: Automatizing Good Character Section 2. The Birth of Good and Evil in our Free Imagination 13: How should we freely choose? 14: What makes us moral beings? 15: Where does Morality come from? 16: Where does human evil come from? 17: Where does human goodness come from? 18: The Vacuum of Meaning caused by Science 19: Attempts to Fill The Vacuum of Meaning 20: The Future of Science and Religion
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