دانلود کتاب Neural Basis of Free Will : Criterial Causation

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Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 4
Contents......Page 8
Preface......Page 12
Falsifiable Predictions of the Burst Packet Theory of Attention and Consciousness......Page 16
1 Introduction: The Mind – Body Problem Will Be Solved by Neuroscience......Page 18
2 Overview of Arguments......Page 28
Abstract for Chapters 3 – 6......Page 36
What Is Will?......Page 37
What Is Criterial Causation?......Page 39
How Can Neurons Realize Informational Criteria?......Page 48
The Bottom-Up Information-Processing Hierarchy for Visual Recognition......Page 53
Decision Making and Action......Page 60
Attention and Top-Down Modulation of Bottom-Up Processing......Page 61
Basic Issues in Neuronal Information Processing: Balancing Excitation and Inhibition......Page 67
Tonic versus Phasic Firing......Page 70
The Sweet Spot of Neural Criticality......Page 74
Synchrony among Inhibitory Interneurons......Page 75
Attentional Binding and Gamma Oscillations......Page 77
Attentional Binding by Neuronal Bursting......Page 81
Neural Epiconnectivity and Rapid Synaptic Resetting......Page 84
Amplifying Microscopic Randomness to Spike Timing Variability......Page 89
Spiny and Nonspiny Neurons......Page 96
The NMDA Receptor......Page 98
Long-Term Potentiation Is Not the Mechanism of Rapid Synaptic Plasticity......Page 100
Spike Timing-Dependent Plasticity......Page 104
The Role of Back-Propagating Action Potentials in Rapid Synaptic Plasticity and Bursting......Page 106
A Neuronal Burst Code......Page 115
Attentional Binding by Bursting: The Role of Cholinergic Feedback......Page 120
Attentional Binding by Bursting: The Role of Noncholinergic Feedback......Page 125
Conclusion......Page 131
Criterial Causation and the Detection of Patterns in Input......Page 132
Criterial Causation: Multiple Realizability Is Not Enough......Page 136
Addressing Kim’s Challenge......Page 140
There Is No Backward Causation in Criterial Causation......Page 144
Criterial Causation Is a Causation of Pattern-Released Activity......Page 146
Strong Free Will......Page 150
Criterial Causation Escapes the Basic Argument against Free Will......Page 152
James and Incompatibilist Physicalist Libertarianism......Page 161
Decision Making and Choice......Page 163
Conclusion......Page 165
The Neural Code Is Not Algorithmic......Page 168
Criterialism, Descriptivism, and Reference......Page 170
Countering Kripke’s Attack......Page 173
Wittgenstein and Criteria......Page 176
Propositions and Vectorial Encodings......Page 179
Mental Operations versus Mental Representations......Page 181
Beyond Functionalism......Page 182
Libet’s Experiments Do Not Disprove the Possibility of Free Will......Page 186
Is Conscious Willing Causal?......Page 190
Illusions of Volitional Efficacy......Page 194
Abstract......Page 200
Why Are There Qualia?......Page 202
Iconic versus Working Memory......Page 206
Stage 1 Qualia as Precompiled Informational Outputs of Preconscious Operations......Page 209
Qualia as a Shared Format for Endogenous Attentional Operations......Page 213
Experience Is for Endogenously Attending, Doing, and Planning......Page 215
Volitional Attentional Tracking Requires Consciousness......Page 217
If an Animal Can Attentionally Track, Is It Conscious?......Page 226
Volitional Attention Can Alter Qualia......Page 229
Qualia and Chunking: Types of Qualia......Page 234
Qualia and the Frontoparietal Network......Page 242
The Superpositionality of Qualia......Page 250
Zombies Are Impossible......Page 253
Tying It All Together......Page 254
Appendix 1: Physical Evidence for Ontological Indeterminism......Page 258
Abstract......Page 264
Conclusion......Page 272
Appendix 3: Why There Are No Necessary A posteriori Propositions......Page 274
Notes......Page 278
Glossary......Page 306
References......Page 326
Author Index......Page 428
Subject Index......Page 460