Description: Seminar, one hour. Do we have free will? What does it mean to have free will and how could it be realized in nervous system? Use of tools from analytic philosophy, computational neuroscience, and experimental neuroscience and psychology to investigate problem of free will. Examination of conceptual relationship of indeterminacy, determinacy, and randomness to our freedom of will. Study of computational and neurophysiological work on decision making, as well as behavioral work on sense of agency (e.g., Libet Experiment), and evaluation of their relevance to free will debate. P/NP grading. Facilitated by Eden Sayed, with Calvin G. Normore as faculty mentor.

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