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33Which Came First, the Chicken or the Egg? Rethinking Causal Directions between Neural Mechanisms, Agency, and Human EnhancementAmerican Journal of Bioethics Neuroscience 2 (3): 46-48. 2011.Increasing evidence suggests that it is not only the case that brain-based cognitive and emotional processes affect decision-making, but also that decision-making, actions and habits influence in turn the very structure and function of the brain by way of neural plasticity. This indicates that the interplay between brain and agency is made up of a complex feedback loop of reciprocal causality. The assumption that the causal relationship is one way –brain to behavior– results in unsatisfactory ne…Read more
University of Oxford
DPhil
Oxford, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Areas of Interest
Applied Ethics |
Technology Ethics |
Social and Political Philosophy |
PhilPapers Editorships
Buddhist Ethics |