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The Volitional Brain: towards a neuroscience of free will
  1. JON STONE

    https://doi.org/10.1136/jnnp.70.5.709c

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      The Volitional Brain: towards a neuroscience of free will. Edited by: benjamin libet, anthony freeman, and keith sutherland (Pp 298, £14.95) Published by Imprint Academic, Exeter, 1999. ISBN 0-907845-11-8

      Do we really choose to get out of bed in the morning or is our sense of free will merely an illusion? In an age of functional imaging can philosophy still offer any solutions to the problem of volition? Is free will compatible with the laws of quantum physics?

      The subject of free will, once the province of philosophy and theology, …

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