The Will and Its Brain - An Appraisal of Reasoned Free Will

Informationen zum Autor By Hans Helmut Kornhuber and Lüder Deecke Klappentext In The Will and its Brain, Hans Helmut Kornhuber and Lüder Deecke present evidence that proves we can record activity from the human brain occurring prior to our volitional actions. They claim that we have free will, albeit not absolutely free, but realized in degrees of freedom. Zusammenfassung In The Will and its Brain, Hans Helmut Kornhuber and Lüder Deecke present evidence that proves we can record activity from the human brain occurring prior to our volitional actions. They claim that we have free will, albeit not absolutely free, but realized in degrees of freedom. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of Figures ForewordPrefacePreface to the German EditionIntroduction - What is the Will?Chapter One: The Will - History and Transcultural AspectsChapter Two: The Will - Its Association with FreedomChapter Three: The Will and Psychiatry/PsychologyChapter Four: The Will and Neurophysiology/Brain ResearchChapter Five: The Will and New Psychology SchoolsChapter Six: The Will and the Real Function of the Frontal Lobe - Commander, Delegator, Supervisor and RaterChapter Seven: The Will and the Evolution of Man - Creativeness and Cooperation - Common WillChapter Eight: The Will and Dream Sleep, Feelings, Drives, Meaning-Happiness, Beauty, Love, Empathy and Theory of MindChapter Nine: The Will and the Limbic System, the Hypothalamus, the Arousal System, Circadian Rhythm, the Endocrine System, Fatigue and ImpetusChapter Ten: The Will is Not Strictly Coupled with Consciousness - There are Conscious and Unconscious Agendas in the Brain and Both are ImportantChapter Eleven: The Will - Is it Grounded upon Freedom or upon Total Determinism?Chapter Twelve: The Will - Its Freedom is Not a Priori Granted: We Have to do Something for It - Actively Increasing our Degrees of FreedomSummaryBibliographyIndexName Index

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• Authors: L. Deecke, Luder Deecke, Lüder Deecke, Hans Helmut Kornhuber, Helmut Kornhuber Hans, Hans H. Kornhuber, Hans Helmut Kornhuber, Hans Helmut/ Deecke Kornhuber
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 16.08.2012
• EAN: 9780761858621
• ISBN: 978-0-7618-5862-1
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > Clinical medicine; Non-fiction book > Psychology, esoterics, spirituality, anthroposophy > Psychology: general, reference works; PSYCHOLOGY / Cognitive Psychology & Cognition, PSYCHOLOGY / Neuropsychology, PSYCHOLOGY / Physiological Psychology, Physiological & neuro-psychology, biopsychology, Cognition & cognitive psychology, Physiological and neuro-psychology, biopsychology, Cognition and cognitive psychology