abstract the nature and origin of human behaviors, as the main factors in the development of body and soul, have been studied and analyzed from different perspectives, including philosophy, psychology and physiology. in religious teachings, human behaviors are addressed through being classified into active and stative and also conscious and non-conscious behaviors and their effects on the life ...

A cognitive agent is expected to use awareness of the environment and its own body to direct its actions. Such awareness is required for the simplest and most common type of composite acts: sequences. To perform a sequence of acts, a cognitive agent should start performing one step when, and only when, it comes to believe that the previous one has been completed. We present a model for interlea...

Science can provide more information about the nature of aggressive acts, and therefore the mens rea of criminal offenses, than is commonly assumed. For example, progress has been made in classifying aggression as impulsive or premeditated within the context of the role of conscious experience in controlling behavior. This review of the status of the scientific ability to distinguish conscious ...

Voluntary acts are preceded by electrophysiological "readiness potentials" (RPs). With spontaneous acts involving no preplanning, the main negative RP shift begins at about -550 ms. Such RP's were used to indicate the minimum onset times for the cerebral activity that precedes a fully endogenous voluntary act. The time of conscious intention to act was obtained from the subject's recall of the ...

Abstract In the context of «reassessing relationship between explanation and phenomenology», paper discusses question in what ways Husserlian phenomenology as a descriptive science consciousness has an explanatory potential studies. It takes very limited approach to wide-ranging themes that may come mind on this topic. At center is exploration explanandum its own right, building Husserl's refle...

This article examines the legal implications linked to recent scientific research on human consciousness. The article contends that groundbreaking revelations about consciousness expose the frailties of the criminal law's traditional dual dichotomies of conscious versus unconscious thought processes and voluntary versus involuntary acts. These binary doctrines have no valid scientific foundatio...

Based on his experimental studies, Libet claims that voluntary actions are initiated by unconscious brain activities well before intentions or decisions to act are consciously experienced by people. This account conflicts with our common-sense conception of human agency, in which people consciously and intentionally exert volitions or acts of will to initiate voluntary actions. This paper offer...