title: Control consciousness.
abstract: Control consciousness is the awareness or experience of seeming to be in control of one's actions. One view, which I will be arguing against in the present paper, is that control consciousness is a form of sensory consciousness. In such a view, control consciousness is exhausted by sensory elements such as tactile and proprioceptive information. An opposing view, which I will be arguing for, is that sensory elements cannot be the whole story and must be supplemented by direct contributions of nonsensory, motor elements. More specifically, I will be arguing for the view that the neural basis of control consciousness is constituted by states of recurrent activation in relatively intermediate levels of the motor hierarchy.
authors.affiliation: Department of Philosophy, William Paterson University.
authors.forename: Pete
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Mandik
mesh_terms: D003243:Consciousness / Q000502:physiology*; D056344:Executive Function / Q000502:physiology*; D006801:Humans; D009043:Motor Activity / Q000502:physiology*; D012677:Sensation / Q000502:physiology*
keywords: Agency; Consciousness; Imagery; Motor control; Neurophilosophy; Phenomenology; Will