Tse P.U. The Neural Basis of Fee Will: Criterial Causation

Publisher: MIT Press (February 22, 2013), 472 p.A neuroscientific perspective on the mind–body problem that focuses on how the brain actually accomplishes mental causation.Introduction: The Mind–Body Problem Will Be Solved by Neuroscience
Overview of Arguments
A Criterial Neuronal Code Underlies Downward Mental Causation and Free Will
Neurons Impose Physical and Informational Criteria for Firing on Their Inputs
NMDA Receptors and a Neuronal Code Based on Bursting
Mental Causation as an Instance of Criterial Causation
Criterial Causation Offers a Neural Basis for Free Will
Implications of Criterial Causality for Mental Representation
Barking Up the Wrong Free: Readiness Potentials and the Role of Conscious Willing
The Roles of Attention and Consciousness in Criterial Causation