cognitive volitional perspectives neuroscience

books:

The Volitional Brain : Towards a Neuroscience of Free Will

Imprint Academic, 2000

It is widely accepted in science that the universe is a closed deterministic system in which everything can, ultimately, be explained by purely physical causation. And yet we all experience ourselves as having the freedom to choose between alternatives presented to us -- 'we' are in the driving seat.

Mind Time: The Temporal Factor in Consciousness (Perspectives in Cognitive Neuroscience)

4 reviews
Benjamin Libet

Harvard University Press, 2005

Excellent summary of great scientist's theories
I participated in two of Libet's experiments when I was a grad student, and knew his work well. I went on in neuroscience rather than perception, but I got well trained in both fields. So I thought I would make a few comments on that, especially in regard to the previous reviewer's remarks. I enclose those in brackets and then comment on them in my review. It's a well done review in many ways but ...