Abstract:Since the act of free will must affect synaptic events, where does the energy necessary to induce action potentials of cerebral neurons and synaptic webs come from? The exercise of free will requires the cerebral hardware to be flexible, i.e. it must have an indeterministic character in order to allow a free act to orient this instability in making a choice, thereby reducing the entropy of the system, but a preliminary free act which wants to expend a certain amount of energy is needed, that is, another free a… Show more
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