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#673 Moshe Bar - Mindwandering; Mental Drift, Mood, and Creativity

The Dissenter

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Is There a Mind of Its Own?

Can people have any sort of conscious control over their thoughts, or is it just that they're having one thought and then the way it gets associated with others is completely out of their control? This is an excellent question. So I'd like to say that mind-wandering has a mind of its own. It's not a volitional process. And you usually catch yourself wandering only after you finish. You can't really make yourself stop wandering in the middle, consciously.

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