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#264 - Consciousness and Self (Rebroadcast)

Making Sense with Sam Harris - Subscriber Content

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The Importance of Conformity in Volitional Actions

Can you have experiences of volition and agency even without motor intentions? We're using virtual reality to try to explore some of these situations. In a situation where the virtual hand moves itself and you don't move, you know that you haven't moved your hands. So we haven't been able to induce a sort of full illusion of volitional movement but it seems like what you get is an equivalent amount of intentional binding.

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