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| Draft of article on free will online |
| After much to little time spent writing, a first draft of the article for the Proceedings of the Royal Society is online. There was no way to get this article in the sort of shape I had initially planned, but given the d...[more] |
| free will spontaneity behavior invertebrates proceedings |
| Posted on Thursday 26 August 2010 - 07:42:12 |
| Wordle for my upcoming article on free will |
| The Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences have asked me to write a review article for a special issue on 'minibrains'. The topic of my article was to deal with free will and invertebrates. I just submit...[more] |
| free will freedom behavioral variability spontaneous activity spontaneity Proc. Roy. Soc. |
| Posted on Wednesday 24 November 2010 - 09:46:04 |
| Intelligently designed (divine?) will (soul?) in fruit flies? |
| Quite to my surprise, the intelligent design movement has picked up on our recent study on fruit fly spontaneous behavior. In this study, we found evidence that spontaneous behavior is more than simple system noise. The ...[more] |
| free will intelligent design drosophila spontaneous behavior flight |
| Posted on Tuesday 22 May 2007 - 09:32:00 |
| Towards a scientific concept of free will |
 Today, the Royal Society published my article reviewing the invertebrate data supporting a scientific concept of free will. In it, I first reiterate that the metaphysical concept of free will is long dead (since the 197...[more] |
| free will decision-making spontaneity spontaneous activity invertebrates |
| Posted on Wednesday 15 December 2010 - 20:35:28 |
| Programming Free Will: creative robots |
| I wasn't planning to comment on Kerri Smith's piece on Free Will (probably paywalled) in the last issue of Nature magazine. However, this morning I read a paper on Free Will in robots (or rather 'agents'), which urged me...[more] |
| free will spontaneity robots briegel |
| Posted on Tuesday 13 September 2011 - 14:38:05 |
| ...and now for some Patricia Churchland on Free Will |
| This video can't be embedded, it seems, but it's well worth watching on The Science Network website. It's about what neuroscience can tell us about free will and starts with the folk psychological notion of what free wil...[more] |
| free will Churchland neuroscience video |
| Posted on Friday 24 October 2008 - 08:46:23 |
| 'Free Will' at the Protestant Academy in Meissen |
| Phew! Hoton the heels of the ginormous SfN meeting in the metropolis of Washington DC with ~32,000 participants, I find myself thrown into the German outback in Meissen at a symposium with about 30 participants, organize...[more] |
| free will meeting protestant meissen |
| Posted on Saturday 19 November 2011 - 11:41:54 |
| Free will and culpability before the law |
| The next speaker at this meeting here was Reinhard Merkel, professor of law at the university in Hamburg. He started with the distinction between different kinds of freedom. He cited Kant, but only as a reference to what...[more] |
| free will culpability law jurisprudence neuroscience meeting meissen |
| Posted on Saturday 19 November 2011 - 16:40:01 |
| All brains possess free will because there is no design in biology |
| I have no idea when it started, but probably long before Darwin, the notion of 'design' kept creeping into descriptions of biological organisms or traits: Birds are designed to fly or the eye is designed to see. I've als...[more] |
| free will evolution creationism degeneracy brains spontaneity |
| Posted on Wednesday 09 June 2010 - 22:05:40 |
| What does determinism have in common with gods, the flying spaghetti monster and pink, invisible unicorns? |
| I usually don't blog about physics. Actually, I don't think I ever have, which is not surprising given that I'm not a physicist. This unusual post was prompted by an ongoing series of encounters with people asking me how...[more] |
| free will determinism indeterminism quantum mechanics physics |
| Posted on Tuesday 22 November 2011 - 15:58:25 |
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