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The World Behind the World: Consciousness, Free Will, and the Limits of Science
Bottom of the pile
8
/100
I Index Overall Rating
Readers
15/100Critics
1/100Scholars
Author:
Erik Hoel
Publisher:
Avid Reader Press / Simon & Schuster
Date:
July 25, 2023
The World Behind the World delves into the quest for a theory of consciousness that will trigger a paradigm shift in neuroscience and beyond.
What The Reviewers Say
The attempts to rebut the argument, ever more frequent these days, that the firings of neurons—not thoughts and desires—are the only real causes of human action. As if that weren’t enough, he tries to save the idea that we have free will too—all in slightly more than 200 pages. His project is, he admits, 'impossible in scope,' but he still has the chutzpah to give it a go.
Challenging.
