The biology of freedom
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Presentation on the neurobiology of behavioral freedom and free will.
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The biology of freedom
- 1. Freedom in biology: Selectingtherightactionattheright time Björn Brembs Freie Universität Berlin http://brembs.net
- 2. ‘Free Will’ does not exist
- 6. Reductionism “Mental states are always brain states, meaning physical states” Hans Flohr, neurobiologist
- 8. Behavioral Freedom “We could often have done otherwise than we in fact did” Searle 1984
- 9. Behavioral Freedom “I could have done otherwise” Taylor & Dennett 2002
- 10. Behavioral Freedom “If we choose to remain at rest, we may; if we choose to move, we also may.” David Hume
- 15. Evitability “The freedom of the will consists in the impossibility of knowing actions that still lie in the future.” Ludwig Wittgenstein
- 16. Evitability Behavioral freedom is always situational!
- 17. DrosophilaTurningBehavior 28.09.2011 Björn Brembs, Freie Universität Berlin 17 Behavioralvariability in a constantstimulussituation: actions, not responses!
- 18. DrosophilaTurningBehavior 28.09.2011 Björn Brembs, Freie Universität Berlin 18 Behavioralvariability in a constantstimulussituation: actions, not responses!
- 20. Choice ornoise? Decisionsornoise in a complexsystem?
- 21. Inter-Saccade-Intervals(ISIs) Flies as random number generators? All computations by Alexander Maye, UKE Hamburg (Maye et al. 2007) Choice or Noise?
- 22. Choice or Noise? Geometric Random Inner Products: GRIP All computationsby Alexander Maye: Maye et al. (2007)
- 23. Choice or Noise?
- 24. Attractorof a non-linear system
- 28. Human Free Will
- 32. Pursuit-evasioncontests& competition (courtship, predator-prey, territoriality, chess, sports etc.)
- 34. General brainfunction Action – Outcome Evaluation
- 35. Many Brains Scott E Page Groups of diverse problem solvers can outperform groups of high-ability problem solvers http://www.pnas.org/content/101/46/16385.long
Editor's Notes
- Daniel Wegner, The Illusion of Conscious Will (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2002).Ted Honderich, How Free Are You (Oxford, Oxford U. Press, 2002)Richard Double, The Non-Reality of Free Will (New York, Oxford U. Press, 1991)Saul Smilansky, Free Will and Illusion (Oxford, Clarendon Press, 2002)Derk Pereboom, Living Without Free Will (Cambridge, Cambridge U. Press, 2001)Nancy Murphey and Warren S. Brown, Did My Neurons Make Me Do It? (Oxford, Oxford U. Press, 2007)