My Brain Made Me Do It: the Exclusion Argument against Free Will, and What's Wrong with It Christian List and Peter Menzies
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'Did I consciously choose coffee over tea? No. The choice was made for me by events in my brain that I, as the conscious witness of my thoughts and actions, could not inspect or influence… The intention to do one thing and not another does not originate in consciousness – rather, it appears in consciousness, as does any thought or impulse that might oppose it.' (Harris 2012, pp. 7-8)
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