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Conscious Control over Action
The extensive involvement of nonconscious processes in human behaviour has led some to suggest that consciousness is much less important for the control of action than we might think. In this article I push against this trend, developing an understanding of conscious control that is sensitive to our...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4471880/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26113753 http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/mila.12082 |
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description | The extensive involvement of nonconscious processes in human behaviour has led some to suggest that consciousness is much less important for the control of action than we might think. In this article I push against this trend, developing an understanding of conscious control that is sensitive to our best models of overt (that is, bodily) action control. Further, I assess the cogency of various zombie challenges—challenges that seek to demote the importance of conscious control for human agency. I argue that though nonconscious contributions to action control are evidently robust, these challenges are overblown. |
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spelling | pubmed-44718802015-06-23 Conscious Control over Action Shepherd, Joshua Mind Lang Original Articles The extensive involvement of nonconscious processes in human behaviour has led some to suggest that consciousness is much less important for the control of action than we might think. In this article I push against this trend, developing an understanding of conscious control that is sensitive to our best models of overt (that is, bodily) action control. Further, I assess the cogency of various zombie challenges—challenges that seek to demote the importance of conscious control for human agency. I argue that though nonconscious contributions to action control are evidently robust, these challenges are overblown. Blackwell Publishing Ltd 2015-06 2015-06-03 /pmc/articles/PMC4471880/ /pubmed/26113753 http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/mila.12082 Text en © 2015 The Authors. Mind & Language published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Original Articles Shepherd, Joshua Conscious Control over Action |
title | Conscious Control over Action |
title_full | Conscious Control over Action |
title_fullStr | Conscious Control over Action |
title_full_unstemmed | Conscious Control over Action |
title_short | Conscious Control over Action |
title_sort | conscious control over action |
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url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4471880/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26113753 http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/mila.12082 |
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