The Nature of Consciousness

Piero Scaruffi

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These are excerpts and elaborations from my book "The Nature of Consciousness"

 

25. The Self and Free Will: Do We Think or Are We Thought?

  1. The Self
  2. The Narrative Self
  3. The Illusion of the Self
  4. The Solipsistic Brain
  5. The Autobiographical Self
  6. The Grounded Self
  7. Identity: Who Am I?
  8. Are We Immortal?
  9. What Is A Self?
  10. Conceptual Life
  11. The Importance of Being Warm
  12. Retrospection vs Introspection
  13. Purpose
  14. Life is Unpredictable
  15. Will, Not Necessarily Free: A Materialistic View Of Free Will
  16. Free Will
  17. Free Will and Randomness
  18. Free Will and Quantum States
  19. The Nature of Free Will and the Free Will of Nature (2018 addition)
  20. Amoral Will (2017 addition)
  21. The Nonlinear Origins of Free Will
  22. The Machine's Free Will

Further Reading (Click here for reviews of these books)

 

Bruner, Jerome: SELF RECONSIDERED (1995)

Carlson, Richard: EXPERIENCED COGNITION (Lawrence Erlbaum, 1997)

Dennett, Daniel: KINDS OF MINDS (Basic, 1998)

Hofstadter, Douglas: I AM A STRANGE LOOP (Basic, 2007)

Kotre, John: WHITE GLOVES (Norton, 1996)

Lazarus, Richard: EMOTION AND ADAPTATION (Oxford Univ Press, 1991)

Thomas, Lewis: THE LIVES OF A CELL (1974)

Olson, Eric: THE HUMAN ANIMAL (Oxford Univ Press, 1997)

Ornstein, Robert: MULTIMIND (Houghton Mifflin, 1986)

Parfit, Derek: REASONS AND PERSONS (Oxford Univ Press, 1985)

Thomas, Lewis: la(Viking Press, 1974)