Stuart Kauffman - How Free Will Probes Mind and Consciousness

Can free will reveal the nature of mental states? Free will seems so obvious, yet defies physical explanation. That’s the reason why free will can be a tool to explore the mind. Free will probes consciousness by examining what it means to pick, choose, select, decide in the closed physical system of the world. But is ‘free will’ just a trick of the brain?

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Stuart Alan Kauffman is a medical doctor, theoretical biologist, and complex systems researcher who studies the origin of life on Earth. He is a former professor at the University of Chicago, University of Pennsylvania, and University of Calgary.

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