INQ-260PY | Neuroscience and Free Will

Full Title: Neuroscience and Free Will

Topic Description:

We make choices every day to negotiate our world. Does this require free will? We feel in control of our actions. But what forces, both within ourselves and in our environment, impact our choices? We interact with other people based on a shared understanding of the same kind of conscious experience. What are the consequences when someone’s consciousness changes, and how can we know that it has? Our choices, feelings, and consciousness are grounded in neural activity in our brains, and scientific experiments are required to elucidate how and where. These questions and others will be addressed in this class in relation to neuroscience and psychological science.

Counts as Global? No

Topic Approved: March 2021