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When I enter my office, I do a great many things without paying any attention to the details of what I do and how I do it. I turn the key to unlock the door, turn on the light if necessary, put down my briefcase on a chair, and take off my coat. All these things I do quite automatically, without explicit consciousness. This is because long ago, or so we might put it, my body took over.
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Bransen, J. (1998). Making X Happen: Prolepsis and the Problem of Mental Determination. In: Bransen, J., Cuypers, S.E. (eds) Human Action, Deliberation and Causation. Philosophical Studies Series, vol 77. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-5082-8_7
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