Consciousness and the Freedom to Act
This chapter proposes that the question of personal freedom can only be resolved by a better understanding of consciousness in scientific terms. There is clearly no free will, in any meaningful sense, outside conscious awareness. Symbolization, language, and culture had a revolutionary effect on human awareness.
Keywords: consciousness, free will, language, culture, symbolism, brain, human and animal awareness
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