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How does the brain generate subjective experience – the feeling of 'what-it's-like' to be us? Explanations differ: some seek physical mechanisms (Physicalists included), while others find such accounts lacking or impossible in principle. This article presents a specific physicalist and functionalist hypothesis: subjective experience arises from the brain's evolved capacity...

The Unavoidable Experience of Free Will in a Deterministic World The existence of free will in a potentially deterministic universe is one of philosophy's most enduring puzzles. Positions fall into categories like Hard Determinism (no free will, as everything is determined), Libertarianism (genuine free will exists and is incompatible with...