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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Main Author: Laurenson, Edwin C. (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Wiley-Blackwell 2011
In: Zygon
Year: 2011, Volume: 46, Issue: 1, Pages: 111-120
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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