Merleau-Ponty on Human Motility and Libet’s Paradox

In 1979, neuroscientists Libet, Wright, Feinstein and Pearl introduced the "delay-and-antedating" hypothesis/paradox based on the results of an on-going series of experiments dating back to 1964 that measured the neural adequacy [brain wave activity] of "conscious sensory experience&q...

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Authors: Mooney, Thomas Brian (Author) ; Norris, Damien (Author)
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Language:English
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Published: Rhodes University 2007
In: The Indo-Pacific journal of phenomenology
Year: 2007, Volume: 7, Issue: 1, Pages: 1-9
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