Human Freedom and "Emergence"
Human Freedom and "Emergence"
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10.1007/978-3-642-03205-9_3
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2009-01-01
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Newsome, William T.
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Newsome, William T.
自由意志是否是一种现实，无论是从科学的角度还是从社会的角度来看，都是一个日益紧迫的问题。做出判断和采取行动的能力在某种意义上是“自由的”，这似乎是科学推理过程和我们道德行为能力的先决条件。我们如何调和推理智力的“自主性”与我们的科学信念，即所有行为都是由中枢神经系统细胞之间的机械相互作用介导的？答案似乎最终将在于对复杂系统中涌现现象的更深入理解。这将有助于丰富我们对物理系统中因果关系的贫乏的标准概念。
Whether free will is a reality is an increasingly urgent problem, both from a scientific and a social point of view. An ability to make judgments and take actions that are "free" in some meaningful sense would seem a prerequisite for the process of scientific reasoning and for our ability to behave morally. How are we to reconcile the "autonomy" of a reasoning intellect with our scientific conviction that all behavior is mediated by mechanistic interactions between cells of the central nervous system? It seems that answers will ultimately lie in a deeper understanding of emergent phenomena in complex systems. This will help enrich our impoverished standard notions of causation in physical systems.