Peter Tse boldly attacks the problem of how conscious thoughts can influence the world. His book is not a repetition of eristic yet ultimately tired logical arguments dating back to the ancient Greeks. It's a breath of fresh air, examining the biophysics of synapses and neurons, to offer a testable hypothesis of how the mental causes the physical. -- Christof Koch, chief scientific officer, Allen Institute for Brain Science, Seattle; author of Consciousness: Confessions of a Romantic Reductionist Peter Tse gives us a full frontal assault on the neuroscience of the will. He brings in the relevant science and shows how mental causation is neuronal causation -- detailing where, how, and why it happens. A fascinating read for serious neuroscientists and philosophers. -- Patrick Cavanagh, Professeur des universites, Universite Paris Descartes, and Research Professor, Harvard University and Dartmouth College This book is a fascinating, philosophically informed exploration of the neural underpinnings of mental causation, mental representation, consciousness, and free will. Tse's approach is tough-minded, open-minded, and refreshing. We've heard from several neuroscientists recently that free will is an illusion. Tse ably defends an opposing view. -- Alfred Mele, Department of Philosophy, Florida State University
Peter Ulric Tse is Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience in the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences at Dartmouth College. He was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2014.
... a groundbreaking new paradigm about how the mind works.—New
York Journal of Books
I love Tse's book. It has literally set me free. It explains these
ideas in full glory, in exquisite detail...—Stephen Macknik,
Scientific American
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