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The short- and long-term consequences of believing an illusion

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 March 2005

Michael E. Young*
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, Carbondale, IL62901-6502http://www.siu.edu/~psycho/bcs/young.html

Abstract:

The experience of free will has causal consequences, albeit not immediate ones. Although Wegner recognizes this, his model failed to incorporate this causal link. Is this experience central to “what makes us human”? A broad acceptance of Wegner's claim that free will is illusory has significant societal and religious consequences, therefore the threshold of evidence needs to be correspondingly high.

Type
Open Peer Commentary
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2004

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