THE ILLUSION OF CONSCIOUS WILL
Daniel M. Wegner
MIT Press, 2003
LEARNING OBJECTIVES - This course was designed to allow the reader to:
• Become familiar with the conscious will in hypnosis
Become familiar with cases where people believe they will, or not will, an act they are doing
• Become familiar with phenomena of Ouija board spelling, automatic writing, facilitated communication, spirit possession and trance channeling
• Learn about dissociative identity disorder
• Understand the long-debated argument on the existence of free will versus determinism
• Explore why the feeling of conscious will is created by the mind and brain
• Investigate how there could be conscious will if psychological and neural mechanisms are responsible for all human behavior
• Explore how the feeling of conscious will helps us appreciate and remember our authorshiop of things our minds and bodies do
• Learn of investigations and experiements on the impact of the illusion of conscious will on ordinary lives
• Discover that although conscious will is an illusion, it serves as a guide to understanding ourselves and to developing a sense of responsibility and morality
Daniel M. Wegner, Ph.D., is Professor of Psychology at Harvard University.
13 CE credits; 419 pages
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