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#264 - Consciousness and Self (Rebroadcast)

Making Sense with Sam Harris - Subscriber Content

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The Relationship Between Volition, Agency, and Will

The hallmark of an action being volitional is that it's associated with intentions. It's clear that intentions themselves arise without an agent authoring them. They emerge in our conscious experience just in the same way that other conscious experiences emerge. And they emerge reflecting motor intentions, which lead to actions that have causes that arise from the internal mechanics of the brain and the body more so than from external causes.

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