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Covers a lot of ground in free will, and it's philosophy from the perspective of a neuroscientist.
Yes, we have free will! This Specialization will explore Libertarian Free Will and discuss philosophical arguments and neuroscientific evidence for and against its existence. In this Specialization, we will dismantle arguments against free will, both from a philosophical and neuroscientific perspective. In supporting free will, we will tour philosophy, physics and neuroscience. We will rethink the neural code and discover that evolution has discovered a middle path between determinism and chance. We will learn about the amplification of quantum domain indeterminism up to a level of indeterminacy in neural spike timing. We will see that outcomes that arise from internal operations in working memory, that afford imagination and deliberations about the future, can alter probabilities of future courses of action. I will argue that evolution has instantiated these conditions necessary for Libertarian Free Will in our brains. Indeed, evolution has afforded us two kinds of Libertarian Free Will, one that we share with other animals, namely, the ability to weigh and select from among internally simulated options, and the other, unique to humans, namely, the capacity to imagine and then set about becoming of a new kind of chooser in the future.
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Covers a lot of ground in free will, and it's philosophy from the perspective of a neuroscientist.
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Experiencing This Class: Absolutely loved this course. Got a little lost in terminology towards the end, but that's on me. The concepts reviewed here are A+. This course should be required reading for the industrial psychologists are the world who conveniently have a lot of opinions around what fate is. This course emphasizes the value fo thinking for oneselves. We need a shot of this sort of thinking in society. Coursera as a Platform: Regarding the prompts in the middle of a lecture, I wish those were less present as it makes it hard to listen to the lectures on the road. Regarding the tests, much like other good schools, they almost sound like GenAI prompt answers. Maybe I'll write my own Coursera and go out to school's a sell it, because even the navigation of this tool is sub-par, and yet here we get to take an Ivy League class online for a very small price.. The Content: But I can get over all of that, because Professor Tze's content overall is just amazing. Last Comment: I found Professor Tse on Youtube, too. I might go there while driving in the future, so the lectures aren't interrupted while driving. Couldn't get enough of his thoughts on free will, even if I only understand a fraction of what he is saying.
Very useful, very interesting course for the philosophy lovers, so definitely I will recommend it
Covers a lot of ground in free will, and it's philosophy from the perspective of a neuroscientist.