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  How Could Conscious Experiences Affect Brains? (Paperback) By (author) Max Velmans

  

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  Short Description for How Could Conscious Experiences Affect Brains?In daily life we take if for granted that our minds have conscious control of our actons, at least most of the time. But many scientists and philophers deny that this is really the case, because there is no generally accepted theory of how the mind interacts with the body. Max Velmans presents a non-reductive solution to the problem, in which 'concious mental control' includes 'voluntary' operatio...
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  • Publisher: IMPRINT ACADEMIC
  • Published: 18 December 2002
  • Format: Paperback 96 pages
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  • Categories: Cognition & Cognitive Psychology | Philosophy Of Mind
  • ISBN 13: 9780907845393 ISBN 10: 0907845398
  • Sales rank: 684,216

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• In daily life we take if for granted that our minds have conscious control of our actons, at least most of the time. But many scientists and philophers deny that this is really the case, because there is no generally accepted theory of how the mind interacts with the body. Max Velmans presents a non-reductive solution to the problem, in which 'concious mental control' includes 'voluntary' operations of the preconscious mind. On this account, biological determinism is compatible with experience free will. Velman's theory is put to the test by nine critics: Ron Chrisley, Todd Feinberg, Jeffrey Gray, John Kihlstrom, Sam Rakover, Ramakrishna Rao, Aaron Sloman, Steve Torrance and Robert Van Gulick.