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Written by <a href='/community/profile/68-danieleaton/'>danieleaton</a>
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Sunday, 03 November 2002 17:28 |
Book: The Illusion of Conscious Will , Daniel M. Wegner
Review: Revew: The Illusion of Conscious Will , mentalhelp.net
"...the word ‘illusion’ in the title is revealing enough of what Wegner has to say about our experience of consciously willing our actions (or, more rigorously put, about our subjective conviction that some of our actions have their causal origin in prior conscious intentions to perform them, while others sort of happen to us). His view is that “the experience of consciously willing an action is not a direct indication that the conscious thought has caused the action” (p.2, italics in the original),
and the book does a good job of supporting that claim with empirical studies showing how our experience of consciously willing (or not) an action often bears little relation to the actual causes of the action. "
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