The Illusion of Conscious Will by Wegner, Daniel M. -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Halftitle Title Copyright Dedication Contents Preface The Illusion of Conscious Will 1 The Illusion

Conscious Will The Experience of Conscious Will The Force of Conscious Will Mind Perception Causal Agency Mechanisms and Minds The Illusion Exposed

2 Brain and Body

Where There’s a Will Voluntary and Involuntary Systems Sensing Effort Phantom Limbs Brain Stimulation When There’s a Will Lifting a Finger Acting Quickly The Missing Lightbulb

3 The Experience of Will

A Theory of Apparent Mental Causation The Priority Principle The Window of Time The I Spy Study The Consistency Principle Causes Should Relate to Effects Creative Insight Hearing Voices The Exclusivity Principle Internal Alternatives to Intention External Alternatives to Intention Perception and Reality

4 An Analysis of Automatism

The Classic Automatisms Automatic Writing Ouija Board Chevreul Pendulum Dowsing Ideomotor Action Conditions of Automatism Dissociative Personality Expectant Attention Movement Confusion Desire for Automatism Resistance to Action Potential Outside Agency The Rule and the Exception

5 Protecting the Illusion

The Ideal Agent The Architecture of Agency Posthypnotic Suggestions Developing the Idea of Intention Unconscious Action Action Identification Thoughts of Action Intention Memory The Confabulation of Intentions Cognitive Dissonance Self-Perception Left Brain Interpreter The Three-Piece Puzzle

6 Action Projection

The Loss of Authorship Clever Hans Clever Hands Ventwilloquism The Whodunit Problem You or Me? And We Makes Three Fictions of Action Projection The Inaction Fiction The Reaction Fiction The Stimulation Fiction The Collaboration Fiction

7 Virtual Agency

Imaginary Agents Imagining an Agent Cues to Reality The Spirit Is Willing Mediums and Channels Possession and Trance Identity and the Subjective Self Multiple Personalities Personal Identity The Self as Operating System

8 Hypnosis and Will

Hypnotic Induction The Essence of Induction Strange Inductions Hypnotic Susceptibility Hypnotic Phenomena The Experience Hypnotic Influence Hypnotic Control Abilities The Explanation of Hypnosis Nightmare Science An Assortment of Theories Partitioning Apparent Mental Causation Control through Involuntariness The Circle of Influence

9 The Mind’s Compass

Free Will and Determinism The Usual Choice Authorship Emotion Achievement and Confidence Responsibility and Morality The Free Will Theory Robot Morality How Things Seem

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