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The Experience of Free Will Changes the Brain
i think that when we have an experience of free will, is divided into two parts. There's an experience of intention, the urge to do something, an agency. And if you replay the tapeyou'll get the same thing. But everything we do, everything that happens, changes the brain. We have these experiences when the brain makes an inference that the cause of an action came from within and was aligned with beliefs and desires of the self. Part of the phenomenology of that is that i could have done otherwise. People want free will to be a particular way because they feel that if they think of it a different way, either they'll dissolve into some psychological puddle on the floor