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Free will and the varieties of affective and conative selves

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 March 2005

Jaak Panksepp
Jaak Panksepp*
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, J. P. Scott Center for Neuroscience Mind and Behavior, Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, OH43403; Department of Biomedical Engineering, Falk Center for Molecular Therapeutics, McCormick School of Engineering, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL60208
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Abstract:

A causally efficacious conscious will is a small part of our everyday activities, but a part that deserves to be recognized, studied, and cherished, perhaps as a fundamental, emotion- and conation-related, right hemispheric neuronal process. Such brain functions might be less in doubt if we consider all the pieces of the larger pie, especially those where our passions and desires reside.

Type
Open Peer Commentary
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 27 , Issue 5 , October 2004 , pp. 671 - 672
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2004

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