273
Views
6
CrossRef citations to date
0
Altmetric
Original Articles

On the Alleged Illusion of Conscious Will

Pages 699-714 | Published online: 21 Aug 2006

References

  • Anderson , JR . 1995 . Cognitive psychology and its implications, , 4th , New York : W. H. Freeman & Co .
  • Aulin , A . 1979 . Law of requisite hierarchy . Kybernetes , 8 : 259 – 266 .
  • Baars , BJ . 1997 . In the theater of consciousness: The workspace of the mind , New York : Oxford University Press .
  • Bechtel , W and Craver , CF . 2003 . Explaining top-down causation (away) Manuscript submitted for publication
  • Beer , S . 1974 . Designing freedom , Toronto, Canada : Canadian Broadcasting Corporation .
  • Bem , S and Looren de Jong , H . 1997 . Theoretical issues in psychology , London : Sage Publications Ltd .
  • Ben-Jacob , E . 1997 . From snowflake formation to growth of bacterial colonies, Part II: Cooperative formation of complex colonial patterns . Contemporary Physics , 38 : 205 – 241 .
  • Bierman , DJ . 2003 . Does consciousness collapse the wave function? . Mind and Matter , 1 : 45 – 57 .
  • Bressler , SL . 2003 . Cortical coordination dynamics and the disorganization syndrome in schizophrenia . Neuropsychopharmacology , 28 : 25 – 39 .
  • Churchland , PS . 1981a . On the alleged backwards referral of experiences and its relevance to the mind-body problem . Philosophy of Science , 48 : 165 – 181 .
  • Churchland , PS . 1981b . The timing of sensations: Reply to Libet . Philosophy of Science , 48 : 492 – 497 .
  • Clark , A . 1997 . Being there: Putting brain, body, and world together again , Cambridge, MA : MIT Press .
  • Craver , CF . 2002 . Interlevel experiments and multilevel mechanisms in the neuroscience of memory . Philosophy of Science Supplemental , 69 : 83 – 97 .
  • Dennett , DC and Kinsbourne , M . 1992 . Time and the observer: The where and when of consciousness in the brain . Behavioral and Brain Sciences , 15 : 183 – 200 .
  • Diamond , A . 2002 . “ Normal development of prefrontal cortex from birth to young adulthood: Cognitive functions, anatomy, and biochemistry ” . In Principles of Frontal Lobe Function , Edited by: Stuss , DT and Knight , RT . 466 – 503 . London : Oxford University Press . (Eds.)
  • Eccles , JC and Popper , KR . 1977 . The self and its brain , Berlin : Springer-Verlag .
  • Elsner , B and Hommel , B . 2001 . Effect anticipation and action control . Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance , 27 : 229 – 240 .
  • Flanagan , O . 1997 . “ Conscious inessentialism and the epiphenomenalist suspecion ” . In The nature of consciousness: Philosophical debates , Edited by: Block , N , Flanagan , O and Güzeldere , G . 357 – 373 . London : MIT Press . (Eds.)
  • Freeman , WJ . 1990 . “ On the fallacy of assigning an origin to consciousness ” . In Machinery of the mind: Data, theory, and speculations about higher brain function , Edited by: John , ER . 14 – 26 . Boston : Birkhauser . (Ed.)
  • Freeman , WJ . 1999a . Consciousness, intentionality, and causality . Journal of Consciousness Studies , 6 : 143 – 172 .
  • Freeman , WJ . 1999b . Comparison of brain models for active vs. passive perception . Information Sciences , 116 : 97 – 107 .
  • Gazzaniga , MS . 1998 . The mind's past , Berkeley, CA : University of California Press .
  • Glynn , IM . 1990 . Consciousness and time . Nature , 348 : 477 – 479 .
  • Gomes , G . 1998 . The timing of conscious experience: A critical review and reinterpretation of Libet's research . Consciousness and Cognition , 7 : 559 – 595 .
  • Gomes , G . 2002 . Problems in the timing of conscious experience . Consciousness and Cognition , 11 : 191 – 197 .
  • Haggard , P and Eimer , M . 1999 . On the relation between brain potentials and the awareness of voluntary movements . Experimental Brain Research , 126 : 128 – 133 .
  • Haken , H . 1987 . “ Synergetics: An approach to self-organization ” . In Self-oranizing systems: The emergece of order , Edited by: Yates , F . 417 – 437 . New York : Plenum Press . (Ed.)
  • Haken , H . 1995 . “ Some basic concepts of synergetics with respect to multistability in perception, phase transitions and formation of meaning ” . In Ambiguity in mind and nature , Edited by: Stadler , M and Kruse , P . 23 – 44 . Berlin : Springer . (Eds.)
  • Hebb , DO . 1949 . The organization of behavior: A neuropsychological theory , New York : Wiley .
  • Heylighen , F . 1989 . “ Self-organization, emergence and the architecture of complexity ” . In Proceedings of the 1st European Conference on System Science , 23 – 32 . Paris : AFCET .
  • Heylighen , F . 2001 . “ The science of self-organization and adaptivity. Knowledge Management, Organizational Intelligence and Learning, and Complexity ” . In The Encyclopedia of Life Support Systems , Edited by: Kiel , LD . 253 – 280 . Oxford, , England : Eolss Publishers . (Ed.)
  • Ho , MW . 1996 . The biology of free will . Journal of Consciousness Studies , 3 : 231 – 244 .
  • Hurley , S . 1998 . Consciousness in action , Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press .
  • Hurley , S . 2001 . Perception and action: Alternative views . Synthese , 129 : 3 – 40 .
  • Jahanshahi , M and Frith , CD . 1998 . Willed action and its impairments . Cognitive Neuropsychology , 15 : 483 – 534 .
  • James , W . 1890 . Principles of psychology , New York : Henry Holt .
  • Jantsch , E . 1980 . The self-organizing universe , Oxford, , England : Pergamon Press .
  • Jeannerod , M . 1997 . The cognitive neuroscience of action , Oxford, , England : Blackwell .
  • Jeannerod , M . 2000 . “ Consciousness of action and self-consciousness. A cognitive neuroscience approach ” . In Agency and self awareness: Issues in philosophy and psychology , Edited by: Roessler , J and Eilan , N . 71 – 86 . Oxford, , England : Oxford University Press . (Eds.)
  • Joordens , S , van Duijn , M and Spalek , TM . 2002 . When timing the mind one should also mind the timing: Biases in the measurement of voluntary actions . Consciousness and Cognition , 11 : 231 – 240 .
  • Jordan , JS . 2003 . “ The embodiment of intentionality ” . In The dynamical systems approach to cognition: Concepts and empirical paradigms based on self-organization, embodiment, and coordination dynamics , Edited by: Tsachacher , W and Dauwalder , J . 201 – 228 . London : World Scientific . (Eds.)
  • Juarrero , A . 1999 . Dynamics in action: Intentional behavior as a complex system , Cambridge, MA : MIT Press .
  • Keijzer , FA . 2001 . Representation and behavio , Cambridge, MA : MIT Press .
  • Keijzer , FA . 2003 . “ Self-steered self-organization ” . In The dynamical systems approach to cognition: Concepts and empirical paradigms based on self-organization, embodiment, and coordination dynamics , Edited by: Tsachacher , W and Dauwalder , J . 243 – 260 . London : World Scientific . (Eds.)
  • Keijzer , FA and Schouten , M . 2005 . Embodied cognition and wide mental causation Manuscript submitted for publication
  • Keller , I and Heckhausen , H . 1990 . Readiness potentials preceding spontaneous motor acts: Voluntary versus involuntary control . Electroencephalography and Clinical Neurophysiology , 76 : 351 – 361 .
  • Kelso , JAS . 1995 . Dynamic patterns , Cambridge, MA : MIT Press .
  • Kim , J . 1998 . Mind in a physical world: An essay on the mind-body problem and mental causation , Cambridge, MA : MIT Press .
  • King , C . 1997 . Quantum mechanics, chaos and the conscious brain . Journal of Mind and Behavior , 18 : 155 – 170 .
  • Krippner , S and Combs , A . 2000 . Self-organization in the dreaming brain . Journal of Mind and Behavior , 21 : 399 – 412 .
  • Lee , TD . 2004 . “ Intention in bimanual coordination performance and learning ” . In Coordination dynamics: Issues and trends , Edited by: Jirsa , VK and Kelso , JAS . 41 – 56 . Berlin : Springer . (Eds.)
  • Libet , B . 1985 . Unconscious cerebral initiative and the role of conscious will in voluntary action . The Behavioral and Brain Sciences , 8 : 529 – 566 .
  • Libet , B . 1991 . Conscious vs. neuronal time . Nature , 352 : 27 – 28 .
  • Libet , B , Alberts , WW , Wright , EW Jr. , Delattre , LD , Levin , G and Feinstein , B . 1964 . Production of threshold levels of conscious sensation by electrical stimulation of human somatosensory cortex . Journal of Neurophysiology , 27 : 546 – 578 .
  • Libet , B , Alberts , WW , Wright , EW Jr. and Feinstein , B . 1967 . Responses of human somatosensory cortex to stimuli below threshold for conscious sensation . Science , 158 : 1597 – 1600 .
  • Libet , B , Gleason , CA , Wright , EW Jr. and Pearl , DK . 1983 . Time of conscious intention to act in relation to onset of cerebral activity (Readiness-potential): The unconscious initiation of a freely voluntary act . Brain , 106 : 623 – 642 .
  • Libet , B , Wright , EW Jr. , Feinstein , B and Pearl , DK . 1979 . Subjective referral of the timing for a conscious sensory experience: A functional role for the somatosensory specific projection system in man . Brain , 102 : 193 – 224 .
  • Libet , B , Wright , EW Jr. and Gleason , CA . 1982 . Readiness-potentials preceding unrestricted “spontaneous” vs. pre-planned voluntary acts . Electroencephalography and Clinical Neurophysiology , 54 : 322 – 335 .
  • Nørretranders , T . 1998 . The user illusion: Cutting consciousness down to size , New York : Penguin Books .
  • Penrose , R . 1989 . The emperor's new mind , New York : Oxford University Press .
  • Pockett , S . 2002 . On subjective back-referral and how long it takes to become conscious of a stimulus: A reinterpretation of Libet's data . Consciousness and Cognition , 11 : 144 – 161 .
  • Port , RF and van Gelder , T . 1995 . Mind as motion: Explorations in the dynamics of cognition , Cambridge, MA : MIT Press .
  • Radin , D . 2003 . Time-reversed human experience: Experimental evidence and implications . Journal of Nonlocality and Remote Mental Interactions , 2 : 256 – 279 .
  • Roth , G . 2003 . “ The interaction of cortex and basal ganglia in the control of voluntary actions ” . In Voluntary action: Brains, minds, and sociality , Edited by: Maasen , S , Prinz , W and Roth , G . 115 – 132 . New York : Oxford University Press . (Eds.)
  • van de Grind , WA and Lokhorst , GJC . 2001 . “ Hersenen en bewustzijn: van pneuma tot grijze massa ” . In Het brein te kijk: verkenning van de cognitieve neurowetenschappen , Edited by: Wijnen , F and Verstraten , F . 217 – 246 . Lisse, , The Netherlands : Swets en Zeitlinger . (Eds.)
  • Wegner , DM . 2002 . The illusion of conscious will , Cambridge, MA : MIT Press .
  • Wegner , DM . 2003 . The mind's best trick: How we experience conscious will . Trends in Cognitive Science , 7 : 65 – 69 .
  • Wegner , DM and Wheatley , TP . 1999 . Apparent mental causation: Sources of the experience of will . American Psychologist , 54 : 480 – 492 .
  • Wolf , FA . 1989 . On the quantum physical theory of subjective antedating . Journal of Theoretical Biology , 136 : 13 – 19 .
  • Zhu , J . 2003 . Reclaiming volition: An alternative interpretation of Libet's experiment . Journal of Consciousness Studies , 10 : 61 – 77 .

Reprints and Corporate Permissions

Please note: Selecting permissions does not provide access to the full text of the article, please see our help page How do I view content?

To request a reprint or corporate permissions for this article, please click on the relevant link below:

Academic Permissions

Please note: Selecting permissions does not provide access to the full text of the article, please see our help page How do I view content?

Obtain permissions instantly via Rightslink by clicking on the button below:

If you are unable to obtain permissions via Rightslink, please complete and submit this Permissions form. For more information, please visit our Permissions help page.