Mitchell, Kevin J.
Free Agents: How Evolution Gave Us Free Will
- ISBN 13:
- 9780691226231
- author:
- Mitchell, Kevin J.
- format:
- Hardback
- publisher:
- Princeton University Press
- language:
- English
- Publication Year:
- 2021
- Pages:
- 352
- Dimensions:
- 23.6 x 15.2 x 3.6 centimetres (0
- Genre:
- Science, Biology, General,
- Condition:
- New
- Availability:
- Item usually sent within 4 working days
Description
Free Agents: An evolutionary case for the existence of free will
Leading neuroscientist Kevin Mitchell presents a wealth of evidence to challenge the idea that agency is an illusion, arguing instead that we are agents acting with purpose. Traversing billions of years of evolution, he tells the remarkable story of how living beings capable of choice arose from lifeless matter.
This book offers a new framework for understanding how, across a billion years of Earth history, life evolved the power to choose, and why it matters. Mitchell's argument has important implications for decision making, individual agency, collective agency, and artificial intelligence.
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