DOI: 10.1017/s0140525x25102963 ISSN: 0140-525X

Speed of consciousness results: Implications for conscious agency and free will

Adina L. Roskies

Abstract

Speed of consciousness results may contribute to the popular notion that our consciousness is inefficacious. I argue that Fleming and Michel’s claim that consciousness is slow, coupled with their idea that consciousness marks a predictive world model, instead supports a view of agency in which we are consciously engaged with the world as it unfolds, both in perception and response.

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