Posted: Jan 15, 2017 5:21 am
archibald wrote:The wiki page on Self-Agency:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-agency
"Daniel Wegner... posits the phenomenal will as the illusory product of post hoc inference."
Interestingly, reading that, it seems that even if matters aren't post-hoc inferences, even if they're predicted (in deliberations) all it takes for us to claim agency is for the results to match the predictions, even if we didn't do the actions.
Probably explains why managers are so good at claiming credit for the actions of their others - not just because they want a bonus.