The Illusion of Conscious Will (72 page)
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Authors: Daniel M. Wegner
Tags: #General, #Psychology, #Cognitive Psychology, #Philosophy, #Will, #Free Will & Determinism, #Free Will and Determinism
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
References
Author_Index
Subject_Index
Table of Contents
The Illusion of Conscious Will
Conscious Will
The Experience of Conscious Will
The Force of Conscious Will
Mind Perception
Causal Agency
Mechanisms and Minds
The Illusion Exposed
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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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