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Cargando... The Illusion of Conscious Will (Bradford Books) (2002)por Daniel M. Wegner
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. The book is well written, even with some sense of humor. I just have an issue with some of the experiments cited. They leave some room for improvement. I will cite Iain McGillchrist: just because we can be fooled in some carefully devised situations, does not mean that we would be fooled in real life. He said that in relation to Daniel Kahneman's Thinking Fast and Slow, but I think it applies here too. ( ) This is the sort of book that many psychologists wish they had written. Wegner's achievement was to collect separate bits of research and put them together in an organized whole, providing impressive support for the notion that the subjective feeling of freely willed actions and thoughts is an illusion. It is an illusion that is constantly with us, and only by examining the research Wegner describes and analyzes, can the illusion be unmasked. Although the book is now much admired within psychology, over time it will be further recognized as a major achievement. I suspect that these basic ideas will eventually find their way into the public consciousness in some form, where it will have continuing repercussions, including in the literary, visual and performing arts. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
A novel contribution to the age-old debate about free will versus determinism.Do we consciously cause our actions, or do they happen to us? Philosophers, psychologists, neuroscientists, theologians, and lawyers have long debated the existence of free will versus determinism. In this book Daniel Wegner offers a novel understanding of the issue. Like actions, he argues, the feeling of conscious will is created by the mind and brain. Yet if psychological and neural mechanisms are responsible for all human behavior, how could we have conscious will? The feeling of conscious will, Wegner shows, helps us to appreciate and remember our authorship of the things our minds and bodies do. Yes, we feel that we consciously will our actions, Wegner says, but at the same time, our actions happen to us. Although conscious will is an illusion, it serves as a guide to understanding ourselves and to developing a sense of responsibility and morality.Approaching conscious will as a topic of psychological study, Wegner examines the issue from a variety of angles. He looks at illusions of the will--those cases where people feel that they are willing an act that they are not doing or, conversely, are not willing an act that they in fact are doing. He explores conscious will in hypnosis, Ouija board spelling, automatic writing, and facilitated communication, as well as in such phenomena as spirit possession, dissociative identity disorder, and trance channeling. The result is a book that sidesteps endless debates to focus, more fruitfully, on the impact on our lives of the illusion of conscious will. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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