Free Will and Agency
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This cluster of papers explores the neural correlates and abnormalities related to the sense of agency, voluntary action, conscious awareness, and decision making, with a focus on conditions such as schizophrenia. It also delves into the philosophical implications of free will and moral responsibility in the context of motor cognition and predictive processes.
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free will; determinism; compatibilism; sense of agency; incompatibilism; indeterminism; free will and determinism; readiness potential; voluntary action; belief in free will; Libet experiments; neuroscience of free will; causal determinism; intentional binding; libertarian free will; illusion of free will; free will debate; temporal binding; alternative possibilities; free action; free will skepticism; agent causation; metaphysics of action; hard determinism; free will problem
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Morton address: 36249527405948429 · morton4x16-v1
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