Agency and Self-Awareness: Mechanisms and Epistemology
Agency and Self-Awareness August 27, 1992 Naomi Eilan, Johannes Roessler
Abstract In the mid-1980s Libet conducted a series of experiments which, he argued, showed that we are aware of intentions to act only after the brain area responsible for initiating acting has already been activated. He, and others, took these experiments to show that our brain ‘decides’ on courses of action independently of our consciousness, where this in turn threatens the idea of free...