Journal article
Free will as relative freedom with conscious component.
- Hájícek P Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland.
- 2008-12-19
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- Consciousness and cognition. - 2009
English
The general notion of relative freedom is introduced. It is a kind of freedom that is observed everywhere in nature. In biology, incomplete knowledge is defined for all organisms. They cope with the problem by Popper's trial-and-error processes. One source of their success is the relative freedom of choice from the basic option ranges: mutations, motions and neuron connections. After the conjecture is adopted that communicability can be used as a criterion of consciousness, free will is defined as a conscious version of relative freedom. The resulting notion is logically self-consistent and it describes an observable phenomenon that agrees with our experience.
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- DOI 10.1016/j.concog.2008.11.001
- PMID 19091602
- Persistent URL
- https://sonar.ch/global/documents/101592
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