TY  - INPR
ID  - cogprints3384
UR  - http://cogprints.org/3384/
A1  - Velmans, Prof Max
TI  - WHY CONSCIOUS FREE WILL BOTH IS AND ISN?T AN ILLUSION
Y1  - 2004///
N2  - Wegner?s analysis of the illusion of conscious will is close to my own account of how conscious experiences relate to brain processes. But our analyses differ somewhat on how conscious will is not an illusion.  Wegner argues that once conscious will arises it enters causally into subsequent mental processing.  I argue that while his causal story is accurate, it remains a first-person story.  Conscious free will is not an illusion in the sense that this first-person story is compatible with and complementary to a third-person account of voluntary processing in the mind/brain. 
AV  - public
KW  - Wegner
KW  -  free will
KW  -  conscious
KW  -  preconscious
KW  -  unconscious
KW  -  illusion
KW  -  mind
KW  -  brain
KW  -  causal interaction
KW  -  first-person
KW  -  third-person
ER  -

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