To what extent are we ruled by unconscious forces?
Decades of research gives insight into how free our choices really are.
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Decades of research gives insight into how free our choices really are.
Sometimes when I ask myself why I’ve made a certain choice, I realise I don’t actually know. To what extent we are ruled by things we aren&rsqu
An Essay on the Mental Causation of Human Behavior: Does the Mind Matter? Does conscious will determine human behavior? Many will undoubtedly find this question to be nonsensical, feeling that the answer is right in front of them. Willful actions, planned behaviors, achieved goals, all seem to provide unambiguous evidence for mental causation – for the idea that our conscious will determines our behaviors. The widespread belief in mental causation has been enshrined into laws and ethics that depend on personal responsibility, which is typically seen as rooted in mental causation. While in...