Consciousness: brain lesions remove free will (General)

by David Turell , Sunday, December 16, 2018, 14:41 (1952 days ago) @ dhw

DAVID: And we agree that certain attributes of consciousness are associated with different areas of the brain.

dhw: Yes indeed. Again, the question is whether those sections of the brain are the source of the attributes of consciousness, or the tools which a “soul” uses in order to implement particular aspects of itself, or a combination of both (see THEORY OF INTELLIGENCE).

DAVID: And as Egnor, the pediatric neurosurgeon notes, removing large sections of the brain usually does not change the attributes of consciousness, so how necessary are normal brain regions?

dhw: This whole article is based on the observation that brain lesions remove free will. Wouldn’t you regard free will as an attribute of consciousness? (But do we really want to reopen this discussion? We have covered every aspect of it before!)

O f course free will is part of consciousness.