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#419 Christian List: Why Free Will Is Real

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The Neuroscientific Level of Description

In different brains from different people we get different patterns of firing patterns of neurons and they still produce the same kind of behavior. This is a phenomenon which philosophers of mind call multiple realizabilities so the idea is that mental states for all we know are multiply realizable at the level of the physical brain. One in the same psychological mental state that plays a certain role in directing intentional actions may have a variety of subtly different brain realizations certainly across different subjects but plausibly also within the same subject.

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