When consciousness matters: A critical review of Daniel Wegner's The illusion of conscious will
@article{Nahmias2002WhenCM, title={When consciousness matters: A critical review of Daniel Wegner's The illusion of conscious will}, author={Eddy A. Nahmias}, journal={Philosophical Psychology}, year={2002}, volume={15}, pages={527 - 541} }
In The illusion of conscious will , Daniel Wegner offers an exciting, informative, and potentially threatening treatise on the psychology of action. I offer several interpretations of the thesis that conscious will is an illusion. The one Wegner seems to suggest is "modular epiphenomenalism": conscious experience of will is produced by a brain system distinct from the system that produces action; it interprets our behavior but does not, as it seems to us, cause it. I argue that the evidence… CONTINUE READING
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