The Illusion of Conscious Will by Daniel M. Wegner

Author:Daniel M. Wegner [Wegner, Daniel M.]
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Tags: General, Psychology, Cognitive Psychology, Philosophy, Will, Free Will & Determinism, Free Will and Determinism
ISBN: 9780262232227
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: 2011-06-29T14:00:00+00:00

The Whodunit Problem

It appears that people can get pretty bollixed up in their understanding of who did what in a social interaction. In a way, this is inevitable. Even with the computational tools of the average rocket scientist, for instance, it could be a sizable task to figure out who did what in just half an hour of a typical facilitated communication interaction. There are all kinds of behaviors going on, as well as hints about who was thinking about what, not to mention information about the priority, consistency, and exclusivity of every potential pairwise thought-action combination in both partners. Imagine what this would look like if we were to try figuring out who willed what actions by whom in the course of a few hours of court proceedings or in the snappy repartee of a good romantic comedy. Whew.

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