Consciousness
seCtIon tHRee: BoDY AnD WoRLD There are many arguments here, and little agreement, except perhaps for a wide- spread rejection ...
As we will see (Chapter 16), James rejected the idea of a persisting self but still believed that the sense of effort in both a ...
seCtIon tHRee: BoDY AnD WoRLD ACtIVItY 9.1 Getting out of bed on a cold morning Try William James’s famous meditation (as he c ...
can produce ‘anarchic hand’ syndrome in which the patient’s two hands fight to produce opposite effects – for exam- ple, one try ...
seCtIon tHRee: BoDY AnD WoRLD One way of investigating the experience of exercising conscious will is to ask what it feels lik ...
Chapter Nine Agency and free will In these early experiments, the sensory cortex of conscious, awake participants was directly s ...
seCtIon tHRee: BoDY AnD WoRLD It was already known that a strong stimulus to somatosensory cortex could interfere with sensatio ...
Chapter Nine Agency and free will the thalamus) is stimulated. As with the cortex, long trains of pulses are required for neuron ...
seCtIon tHRee: BoDY AnD WoRLD other words, they think that intervention by the nonphysical mind is required to explain subject ...
ACtIVItY 9.2 Libet’s voluntary act Libet’s experiment is complex, and the arguments about its interpretation are fierce. It will ...
seCtIon tHRee: BoDY AnD WoRLD ‘15’ or ‘35’, meaning that this was the position of the spot at the moment they decided to act. A ...
Chapter Nine Agency and free will that in the end he abandoned determinism [pp. 168–169]). The results are also compatible with ...
seCtIon tHRee: BoDY AnD WoRLD that the RP is the volition which first initiates the action and only then becomes conscious; the ...
Chapter Nine Agency and free will In experiments on voluntary action and conscious aware- ness, Patrick Haggard and colleagues a ...
actually pressed it, and to choose it from a selection of three that appeared after the button press. Soon and colleagues found ...
Chapter Nine Agency and free will escape this impossible vision, some theories hold that consciousness is a matter not of arrivi ...
seCtIon tHRee: BoDY AnD WoRLD THE EXPERIENCE OF WILL tHe ILLUsIon oF no WILL In 1853 the new craze of spiritualism was spreadi ...
Chapter Nine Agency and free will source directing them towards specific numbers. When later asked whether they could guess some ...
seCtIon tHRee: BoDY AnD WoRLD PRoFILe 9.1 Daniel Wegner (1948–2013) Having started a degree in physics, Daniel Wegner changed ...
Chapter Nine Agency and free will the French and German for ‘yes’) is used to try to contact spirits. Several people place their ...
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