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The Illusion of Conscious Will

by Daniel M. Wegner

  • FINISHED
  • Finished October 2025
  • First published 2002

psychology consciousness cognitive science

Argues that the feeling of willing an action is an inference and not a direct view of causation.   Wegner reviews experiments and clinical cases in which will and action come apart.