{"id":497,"date":"2006-03-03T08:35:22","date_gmt":"2006-03-03T08:35:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/idiolect.truth.posiweb.net\/notes\/?p=497"},"modified":"2006-03-03T08:35:22","modified_gmt":"2006-03-03T08:35:22","slug":"consciousness-exists-to-make-itself-unnecessary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/2006\/03\/03\/consciousness-exists-to-make-itself-unnecessary\/","title":{"rendered":"Consciousness exists to make itself unnecessary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While we&#8217;re thinking about the nature of free conscious choice, this is extremely relevant. John Bargh, in this chapter &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/pantheon.yale.edu\/~jab257\/Bypassing_the_Will.pdf\">Bypassing the Will: Towards Demystifying the Nonconscious Control of Social Behavior<\/a> [1] &#8211; takes evidence from several different subdisciplines and argues that consciousness &#8211; that thing which gives us our experience of deliberate control &#8211; exists exactly to make automatic, &#8216;unwilled&#8217;, behaviours possible.<\/p>\n<p>Bargh talks about cases where the <i>individual<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While we&#8217;re thinking about the nature of free conscious choice, this is extremely relevant. John Bargh, in this chapter &#8211; Bypassing the Will: Towards Demystifying the Nonconscious Control of Social Behavior [1] &#8211; takes evidence from several different subdisciplines and argues that consciousness &#8211; that thing which gives us our experience of deliberate control &#8211; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-497","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-advertising"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5KQtW-81","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=497"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}