Agency, Freedom, and the Blessings of Opacity

Abstract: How can the decisions of “autonomous” individuals provide a rationale for freedom and self-governance if a mechanical and causal sense of the self leads us to question the foundational nature of the individual? If most of our decisions originate in brain function below the level of conscio...

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Published in:Zygon
Main Author: Laurenson, Edwin C. (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Wiley-Blackwell 2011
In: Zygon
Further subjects:B Postmodernism
B Thomas Metzinger
B Agency
B Consciousness
B Self
B Freedom
B Mechanism
B Phenomenology
B narrative self
B self-governance
B Individuality
B Causality
B self-model
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