Subject in Information Society: Free Will or "Product of Technologies"?
Parnakh Aleksandr Maksimovich
MIREA - Russian Technological University
Submitted: 19.11.2018
Abstract. Neuroscience development emphasizes the problem of the human’s free will. Results of neurobiological experiments are often interpreted as justification of the human’s lack of free will; S. Harris shares this viewpoint. However, analysis of discussions on free will that have unfolded in neuroscience and cognitive studies as well as critical analysis of arguments provided by neuroscience representatives - opponents of the free will doctrine - show that findings of modern neuroscience and cognitive studies do not contradict the postulate of free will as the subject’s inherent quality.
Key words and phrases: субъект, свобода воли, рефлексия, сила воли, бихевиоризм, нейробиология, нейрофилософия, эволюция, subject, free will, reflection, willpower, behaviourism, neurobiology, neuro-philosophy, evolution
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