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Resource type: Book Peer reviewed ID no. (ISBN etc.): 978-0-262-03857-7 BibTeX citation key: Rosenberg2018 Email resource to friend View all bibliographic details |
Categories: General Keywords: Causality, Intentionality, Presence Creators: Rosenberg Publisher: MIT Press (Cambridge, Massachusetts) Resources citing this (Bibliography: WIKINDX Master Bibliography) |
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p.99, Paragraph 100
The seventeenth-century philosopher John Locke suggested that we have free will in willing our arms to raise – think, I will raise my arm and then it raises and so there is causation. This was disagreed with by David Hume – as Rosenberg states, all you notice is "the feeling of deciding to raise your arm, and then slightly later, your arm going up" (p.99). See (Libet 1985). In the 1980s, it was shown through neuroscience techniques that the decision to raise the limb occurs after the brain signal to raise it and before that signal reaches the arm (p.100). Libet, B. (1985). Unconscious cerebral initiative and the role of conscious will in voluntary action. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 8(4), 529–566. Added by: Mark Grimshaw-Aagaard Keywords: Causality Free will Intentionality Neuroscience Presence |