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  • For more on determinism, see John T Roberts (2006). “Determinism”, Sahotra Sarkar, Jessica Pfeifer, eds: The Philosophy of Science: A-M. Taylor & Francis, pp. 197 ff. ISBN 0415977096. )
  • For more on modern discussions of the nature and role of conscious action see, for example,
Geraint Rees and Anil K Seth (2010). "The cognitive neuroscience of consciousness". Cognitive Neuroscience 1 (3): pp. 153-154.
and
Clayton E Curtis, Mark D'Esposito (2008). “Chapter 3: The inhibition of unwanted actions”, Ezequiel Morsella, John A. Bargh, Peter M. Gollwitzer: Oxford Handbook of Human Action. Oxford University Press, pp. 72 ff. ISBN 0199718784. .
  • One modern discussion related to a broader formulation of this argument is the role of emergence in the debate between reductionism and antireductionism.
(2008) Jamie A Goode, Gregory R Bock: The Limits of Reductionism in Biology: Novartis Foundation Symposium. John Wiley & Sons. ISBN 047051549X.  Symposium held in 1997 at the Novartis Foundation.
Jonathan Shear (1999). Explaining Consciousness: The Hard Problem. MIT Press. ISBN 026269221X. 
The debate is particularity pronounced in the field of neuroscience, with some arguing for the explanation of human consciousness at a neuronal level,
Eric R Kandel (2007). In Search of Memory: The Emergence of a New Science of Mind. WW Norton & Co. ISBN 0393070514. 
Francis Crick, Christof Koch (2003). "A framework for consciousness". Nature Neuroscience 6: pp. 119-126. DOI:10.1038/nn0203-119. Research Blogging.
the basis for the Blue Brain Project and mind uploading,
Ben Goertzel and Stephan Vladimir Bugaj (2006). “Chapter 5: Uploading: Liberating minds from brains”, The Path to Posthumanity: 21st Century Technology and Its Radical Implications for Mind, Society and Reality. Academica Press. ISBN 193090195X. 
and others suggesting this approach is simplistic:
Colin McGinn (2000). The Mysterious Flame: Conscious Minds In A Material World. Basic Books. ISBN 0786725168. 
for example, asserting that it is unable to address the hard problem of consciousness.