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We believe in freedom of the will so that we can learn

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 March 2005

Clark Glymour
Clark Glymour*
Affiliation:
Department of Philosophy, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA15213; Institute for Human and Machine Cognition, University of West Florida, Pensacola, FL32507
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cg09@andrew.cmu.edu
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The central theoretical issue of Wegner's book is: Why do we have the illusion of conscious will? I suggest that learning requires belief in the autonomy of action.

You should believe in freedom of the will because if you have it you're right, and if you don't have it you couldn't have done otherwise anyway.

—Sam Buss (Lecture at University of California, San Diego, 2000)

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Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 27 , Issue 5 , October 2004 , pp. 661 - 662
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2004