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Illusions of consious will

After reading the book I was very well surprised to find out that Daniel Wegner is not so taking sides on the subject of free-will vs. determinism, but rather in providing a psychological theory of how the experience of conscious will arises in us and how reliable it is in tracking down the causes of our behaviour. In the title the word ‘illusion’ is revealing enough of what Wegner has to say about our experience of consciously willing our. 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), and the book does a good job of supporting that claim with observed studies showing how our experience of consciously willing (or not) an action often be

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