In The Will and its Brain, Hans Helmut Kornhuber and Lüder Deecke present evidence that proves we can record activity from the human brain occurring prior to our volitional actions. They claim that we have free will, albeit not absolutely free, but realized in degrees of freedom.
In The Will and its Brain, Hans Helmut Kornhuber and Lüder Deecke present evidence that proves we can record activity from the human brain occurring prior to our volitional actions. They claim that we have free will, albeit not absolutely free, but realized in degrees of freedom.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Hans Helmut Kornhuber was born in 1928 in Königsberg, Germany, and passed away in 2009. He was a brilliant neurologist and neurophysiologist known worldwide. After his release in 1949 from a Russian prisoner of war camp, he studied medicine in Munich, Göttingen, Freiburg, Heidelberg, and Basel. He was trained in clinical neurophysiology at the Neurological University Hospital in Freiburg and became full professor of neurology at the University of Ulm, Germany in 1966. Lüder Deecke was born in 1938 in Lohe, Germany. He studied medicine at the universities of Freiburg, Hamburg, and Vienna. He received his clinical education at the Neurological University Hospital in Freiburg and at the University of Ulm. Deecke became full professor of neurology and head of the Neurological University Hospital in Vienna in 1985. In 1990, he founded and subsequently chaired the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Functional Brain Topography.
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List of Figures Foreword Preface Preface to the German Edition Introduction - What is the Will? Chapter One: The Will - History and Transcultural Aspects Chapter Two: The Will - Its Association with Freedom Chapter Three: The Will and Psychiatry/Psychology Chapter Four: The Will and Neurophysiology/Brain Research Chapter Five: The Will and New Psychology Schools Chapter Six: The Will and the Real Function of the Frontal Lobe - Commander, Delegator, Supervisor and Rater Chapter Seven: The Will and the Evolution of Man - Creativeness and Cooperation - Common Will Chapter Eight: The Will and Dream Sleep, Feelings, Drives, Meaning-Happiness, Beauty, Love, Empathy and Theory of Mind Chapter Nine: The Will and the Limbic System, the Hypothalamus, the Arousal System, Circadian Rhythm, the Endocrine System, Fatigue and Impetus Chapter Ten: The Will is Not Strictly Coupled with Consciousness - There are Conscious and Unconscious Agendas in the Brain and Both are Important Chapter Eleven: The Will - Is it Grounded upon Freedom or upon Total Determinism? Chapter Twelve: The Will - Its Freedom is Not a Priori Granted: We Have to do Something for It - Actively Increasing our Degrees of Freedom Summary Bibliography Index Name Index
List of Figures Foreword Preface Preface to the German Edition Introduction - What is the Will? Chapter One: The Will - History and Transcultural Aspects Chapter Two: The Will - Its Association with Freedom Chapter Three: The Will and Psychiatry/Psychology Chapter Four: The Will and Neurophysiology/Brain Research Chapter Five: The Will and New Psychology Schools Chapter Six: The Will and the Real Function of the Frontal Lobe - Commander, Delegator, Supervisor and Rater Chapter Seven: The Will and the Evolution of Man - Creativeness and Cooperation - Common Will Chapter Eight: The Will and Dream Sleep, Feelings, Drives, Meaning-Happiness, Beauty, Love, Empathy and Theory of Mind Chapter Nine: The Will and the Limbic System, the Hypothalamus, the Arousal System, Circadian Rhythm, the Endocrine System, Fatigue and Impetus Chapter Ten: The Will is Not Strictly Coupled with Consciousness - There are Conscious and Unconscious Agendas in the Brain and Both are Important Chapter Eleven: The Will - Is it Grounded upon Freedom or upon Total Determinism? Chapter Twelve: The Will - Its Freedom is Not a Priori Granted: We Have to do Something for It - Actively Increasing our Degrees of Freedom Summary Bibliography Index Name Index
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