| Description |
vii, 228 p. ; 21 cm. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 193-220) and index. |
| Summary |
"This book is about how we make choices. It is an analysis of the nature of free will, drawing together evidence from physics, chemistry, literature, politics, history and beyond." "Psychiatrist Chris Nunn explores the revolutions in medicine, genetics, bioethics and neuroscience spurred by Julien de La Mettrie's 300-year-old tract Man the Machine. Nunn concludes that a mechanistic view of the human brain, though once fruitful, is now moribund." "He proposes a powerful alternative: that stories, recorded in our memories throughout life, are the mediators of free choice. Nunn demonstrates how this original approach could reconcile the latest brain-imaging results and our seemingly contradictory intuition about decision making and responsibility."--BOOK JACKET. |
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Consciousness.
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Mechanism (Philosophy)
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Mind and body.
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Decision making.
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Physiology.
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La Mettrie, Julien Offray de, 1709-1751. Homme-machine.
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Free will and determinism.
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| ISBN |
1403994951 (cloth) |
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9781403994950 (cloth) |
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