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Self As A Constructed Experience
- The experience of having a self is real but not what it seems; it's a constructed interpretation by the brain.
- Bruce Hood argues components like agency, coherence, and free will are to some extent illusory.
Willing Happens After Brain Prep
- Unconscious brain processes prepare actions before conscious intention appears.
- Libet's work shows conscious awareness of willing can come after motor preparation, breaking naive authorship assumptions.
Hamster Duplicator Reveals Dualism In Kids
- Hood describes a children’s experiment using a fake duplicating machine and hamsters to probe beliefs about copying minds.
- Five- and six-year-olds treat physical duplication as possible but resist the idea that mental states transfer to the duplicate.