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Area of Science:

  • Neuroscience
  • Philosophy of Mind
  • Cognitive Science

Background:

  • Free will presents a paradox: achieving self-guided action requires escaping historical determinism.
  • Philosophical inquiry has identified key features for agency and action, but a unified framework is lacking.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To propose a neurocognitive framework for understanding free will.
  • To explain how specific neurocognitive capacities underpin the experience and reality of free will.
  • To reconcile conceptual problems regarding randomness and conscious control in decision-making.

Main Methods:

  • Organizing philosophical design features into a neurocognitive framework.
  • Identifying four key neurocognitive capacities: adaptive access to unpredictability, goal-directed tuning of unpredictability, internal representational search, and conscious self-construction.
  • Framing free will as a process of generative self-construction through iterative search and exploration.

Main Results:

  • Neurocognitive capacities provide a basis for 'neurocognitive free will'.
  • Free will is conceptualized as generative self-construction, involving an iterative search sampling experience adaptively.
  • Effortful conscious control modulates access to unpredictability, resolving the problem of randomness in volition.

Conclusions:

  • The proposed framework offers a neurocognitive grounding for compatibilist and libertarian views on free will.
  • Neurocognitive understanding contributes to the free will debate by framing it as an interaction between freedom and will.
  • Free will emerges from the dynamic interplay of conscious self-construction, goal-directed behavior, and adaptive unpredictability.