Consciousness: Confessions of a Romantic Reductionist by Christof Koch

Author:Christof Koch
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3, pdf
ISBN: 9780262301039
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: 2012-02-24T06:00:00+00:00

The question of free will is no mere philosophical banter; it engages people in a way that few other metaphysical questions do. It is the bedrock of society’s notions of responsibility, of praise and blame, of being judged for something you did, whether good or bad. Ultimately, it is about the degree of control you exert over your life.

You are living with a loving and lovely spouse. A chance meeting with a stranger, lasting only a few hours, turns this life utterly upside down. You question everything and move out. You talk for hours on the phone, you share your innermost secrets, you start an affaire de coeur. You are in love, a heady and powerful elixir of emotions with many of the hallmarks of obsessive-compulsiveness. You realize perfectly well that this is all wrong from an ethical point of view; it will wreak havoc with many lives, with no guarantee of a happy and productive future. Yet something in you yearns for change.

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