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Free Will

The sort of free will that Wegner supports is the free will that dictates that an “agent” has

the ability to affect, or cause, an event. The ability to mentally conceive an action, perform the

action, and subsequently feel or accept a sense of moral responsibility for said action is,

according to Wegner, related to the consistency, priority, and exclusivity of the thought about the

action prior to the actual performance of the action. But by proposing the simple idea that we

have some sort of internal regulatory control; be it guilt, conscience, or “moral responsibility”

could only insinuate that we have the freedom to choose to control or not control ourselves.

With self regulation in place we then have the ability to choose our actions based on the control

schema.

By utilizing an example involving random and “uncontrolled” body movement, Wegner

attempts to call into question the true “illusory” nature of our control. But as our conscious

mental states are dependent upon our neural network, according to identity theorists such as

Peter Carruthers, we can only assume that our limited understanding of what is truly going on

inside of the brain is attributed to a misinterpretation of the movement. We can call some of

them disease and others syndromes, but it could have the possibility of the mental exertion of

free will. Some people who are limited in the control over themselves, and their minds, exhibit

true free will be allowing themselves to have no control over their mind, or the actions that it

induces the body to perform, it simply does the actions without a pre-cognition of the action

itself.

Finally by considering the idea of free will, and the lack of understanding of the natural

processes as magical, we can only assume that his idea of personal identity is supported by the
ego theory, derived from Hume. Our experiences are simply a unity of conscious understandings

and relations of our experiences. That there is a thinking self, and those who have no control

over that, in my opinion are simply either defective, or are limited in their understandings of

themselves and can therefore not control themselves. There is no “illusion” to the mind-body

experience, no magic, we simply are and those who choose to limit themselves by believing in

externally controlling forces are the travesties of man.

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