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== Decision-Making and Free Will in Biological Organisms == | == Decision-Making and Free Will in Biological Organisms == | ||
Gabor Balazsi, Alexander van Oudenaarden, and James J. Collins | ; Gabor Balazsi, Alexander van Oudenaarden, and James J. Collins : [http://www.bu.edu/abl/files/cell_balazsi.pdf Cellular Decision Making and Biological Noise: From Microbes to Mammals] | ||
; Alexander Maye, Chih-hao Hsieh, George Sugihara, Bjorn Brembs : [http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0000443 Order in Spontaneous Behavior] | |||
[http://www.bu.edu/abl/files/cell_balazsi.pdf Cellular Decision Making and Biological Noise: From Microbes to Mammals] | ; Björn Brembs : [http://rspb.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/early/2010/12/14/rspb.2010.2325 Towards a Scientific Concept of Free Will as a Biological Trait: Spontaneous Actions and Decision-making in Invertebrates] | ||
Alexander Maye, Chih-hao Hsieh, George Sugihara, Bjorn Brembs | |||
[http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0000443 Order in Spontaneous Behavior] | |||
Björn Brembs | |||
[http://rspb.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/early/2010/12/14/rspb.2010.2325 Towards a Scientific Concept of Free Will as a Biological Trait: Spontaneous Actions and Decision-making in Invertebrates] | |||
== Bacterial Cognition == | == Bacterial Cognition == | ||
; Eshel Ben Jacob, Yoash Shapira, Alfred I. Tauber : [http://star.tau.ac.il/~eshel/papers/sdarticle.pdf Seeking the Foundations of Cognition in Bacteria: From Schrodinger's Negative Entropy to Latent Information] | |||
Eshel Ben Jacob, Yoash Shapira, Alfred I. Tauber | |||
[http://star.tau.ac.il/~eshel/papers/sdarticle.pdf Seeking the Foundations of Cognition in Bacteria: From Schrodinger's Negative Entropy to Latent Information] | |||
==Plant Cognition== | ==Plant Cognition== | ||
Anthony Trewavas | ; Anthony Trewavas : [http://aob.oxfordjournals.org/content/92/1/1.full Aspects of Plant Intelligence] | ||
[http://aob.oxfordjournals.org/content/92/1/1.full Aspects of Plant Intelligence] | ; Ian T. Baldwin, Rayko Halitschke, Anja Paschold, Caroline C. von Dahl, Catherine A. Preston : Signaling in Plant-Plant Interactions: "Talking Trees" in the Genomics Era | ||
Ian T. Baldwin, Rayko Halitschke, Anja Paschold, Caroline C. von Dahl, Catherine A. Preston | |||
Signaling in Plant-Plant Interactions: "Talking Trees" in the Genomics Era | |||
==Cognition and Decision in Slime Molds== | ==Cognition and Decision in Slime Molds== | ||
; Toshiyuki Nakagaki, Ryo Kobayashi, Yasumasa Nishiura, and Tetsuo Ueda : [http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1691859/ Obtaining Multiple Separate Food Sources: Behavioural Intelligence in the Physarum plasmodium] | |||
Toshiyuki Nakagaki, Ryo Kobayashi, Yasumasa Nishiura, and Tetsuo Ueda | ; Tanya Latty and Madeleine Beekman : [http://rspb.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/early/2010/08/05/rspb.2010.1045 Irrational Decision-making in an Amoeboid Organism: Transitivity and Context-dependent Preferences] | ||
[http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1691859/ Obtaining Multiple Separate Food Sources: Behavioural Intelligence in the Physarum plasmodium] | |||
Tanya Latty and Madeleine Beekman | |||
[http://rspb.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/early/2010/08/05/rspb.2010.1045 Irrational Decision-making in an Amoeboid Organism: Transitivity and Context-dependent Preferences] | |||
==The Biological Basis of Cognition, Decision, Activity, and Moods == | ==The Biological Basis of Cognition, Decision, Activity, and Moods == | ||
; Björn Brembs : [http://bjoern.brembs.net/request79.html The Importance of Being Active] | |||
Björn Brembs | ; Melissa Bateson, Suzanne Desire, Sarah E. Gartside, and Geraldine A. Wright : [http://www.cell.com/current-biology/retrieve/pii/S0960982211005446 Agitated Honeybees Exhibit Pessimistic Cognitive Biases] | ||
[http://bjoern.brembs.net/request79.html The Importance of Being Active] | |||
Melissa Bateson, Suzanne Desire, Sarah E. Gartside, and Geraldine A. Wright | |||
[http://www.cell.com/current-biology/retrieve/pii/S0960982211005446 Agitated Honeybees Exhibit Pessimistic Cognitive Biases] | |||
== '''[http://www.livingbooksaboutlife.org/books/Cognition_and_decision/Attributions Attributions] == | == '''[http://www.livingbooksaboutlife.org/books/Cognition_and_decision/Attributions Attributions] == |
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in Non-Human Biological Organisms
edited by Steven Shaviro
Introduction
What is the relationship between life and thought? Are all living organisms capable of thinking? Or is thought restricted to animals with nervous systems and brains? Or is it restricted only to human beings, or to us and a few of the other ‘higher’ animals? In any case, what is the relation between thought (which takes place, we like to say, in the mind) and the actual physical processes that take place in the brains of animals and human beings when they are thinking? For that matter, what does it mean to say that thinking, like other forms of organic activity, is subject to, and determined by, physical laws? Is it meaningful to ascribe ‘free will’ to human beings and other organisms? Or are thought processes strictly deterministic, so that ‘free will’ is just an illusion?
These are all speculative, metaphysical questions, which philosophers have been actively discussing for at least several thousand years. They cannot be answered by science alone. But at the very least, biological research of the past several decades has given us vastly more information about cognition and thought, in human beings and in other organisms, than we ever possessed before. In what follows, I would like to look briefly at some of this research, and ponder its implications. (more)
Decision-Making and Free Will in Biological Organisms
- Gabor Balazsi, Alexander van Oudenaarden, and James J. Collins
- Cellular Decision Making and Biological Noise: From Microbes to Mammals
- Alexander Maye, Chih-hao Hsieh, George Sugihara, Bjorn Brembs
- Order in Spontaneous Behavior
- Björn Brembs
- Towards a Scientific Concept of Free Will as a Biological Trait: Spontaneous Actions and Decision-making in Invertebrates
Bacterial Cognition
- Eshel Ben Jacob, Yoash Shapira, Alfred I. Tauber
- Seeking the Foundations of Cognition in Bacteria: From Schrodinger's Negative Entropy to Latent Information
Plant Cognition
- Anthony Trewavas
- Aspects of Plant Intelligence
- Ian T. Baldwin, Rayko Halitschke, Anja Paschold, Caroline C. von Dahl, Catherine A. Preston
- Signaling in Plant-Plant Interactions: "Talking Trees" in the Genomics Era
Cognition and Decision in Slime Molds
- Toshiyuki Nakagaki, Ryo Kobayashi, Yasumasa Nishiura, and Tetsuo Ueda
- Obtaining Multiple Separate Food Sources: Behavioural Intelligence in the Physarum plasmodium
- Tanya Latty and Madeleine Beekman
- Irrational Decision-making in an Amoeboid Organism: Transitivity and Context-dependent Preferences
The Biological Basis of Cognition, Decision, Activity, and Moods
- Björn Brembs
- The Importance of Being Active
- Melissa Bateson, Suzanne Desire, Sarah E. Gartside, and Geraldine A. Wright
- Agitated Honeybees Exhibit Pessimistic Cognitive Biases