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Effective Intentions - The Power of Conscious Will (Hardcover)
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Effective Intentions - The Power of Conscious Will (Hardcover)
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Each of the following claims has been defended in the scientific
literature on free will and consciousness: your brain routinely
decides what you will do before you become conscious of its
decision; there is only a 100 millisecond window of opportunity for
free will, and all it can do is veto conscious decisions,
intentions, or urges; intentions never play a role in producing
corresponding actions; and free will is an illusion.
In Effective Intentions Alfred Mele shows that the evidence offered
to support these claims is sorely deficient. He also shows that
there is strong empirical support for the thesis that some
conscious decisions and intentions have a genuine place in causal
explanations of corresponding actions. In short, there is weighty
evidence of the existence of effective conscious intentions or the
power of conscious will. Mele examines the accuracy of subjects'
reports about when they first became aware of decisions or
intentions in laboratory settings and develops some implications of
warranted skepticism about the accuracy of these reports. In
addition, he explores such questions as whether we must be
conscious of all of our intentions and why scientists disagree
about this. Mele's final chapter closes with a discussion of
imaginary scientific findings that would warrant bold claims about
free will and consciousness of the sort he examines in this book.
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