Philosophie de la conscience : libre arbitre, improvisation musicale et neurosciences
Art is one of the most creative human activities and improvisation is an art form where freedom is maximal. Grinberg-Zylberbaum said that to understand concepts that are associated to consciousness we should start by analyzing the states of consciousness concerning them. Hence, to understand free-will and creativity in a naturalist context, we study the states of consciousness during artistic and improvisational activities, in this paper. Morevover, neuroscience and cognitive science are trying today to study free will. We will see how libertarian incompatibilist free will is compatible with science by showing how the experiments of Libet and Soon et al. do not prove that it is false and by showing how the experiments of Limb, Atasoy and the two-system theory of Kanheman can help us understand it. The different steps of the creative process are composed of an incubation phase where the unconscious mind creates the new information in an indeterministic way, preceded by a phase where the conscious mind (system 2) trains the unconscious mind and followed by a last phase where the conscious mind applies the creative solutions. We establish a Double-Agent model where the unconscious and the conscious minds can act in a two different spontaneous ways, like an orchestra and its maestro. The model describes an incompatibilist libertarian free-will where automatism and spontaneity both participate. Limb and Atasoy compare the brain states, their criticality and brain waves, during altered states of consciousness (like the ones during meditation or sleep) to the ones of improvisation. This also helps us to understand that these brainwaves and their frequency participate to creativity and free-will.
neuroscience improvisation Libet Free-will creativity improvisation philosophy consciousness music