In your formulation, how do you acquire awareness? And, can I take 'true cause' to mean that which is causally operative in your motivational rewards model? (I apologize if I'm not using your terms correctly here.)
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The only way of acquiring awareness works by tasking a part of your brain to create a model that guesses what another part of your brain is doing.
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What triggers the impetus to acquire awareness in this way?
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Usually the suspicion of a regulation problem.
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Ok. Would you agree that the suspicion (whether that's a thought or a feeling) of a regulation problem simply arises without intentionality?
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Metacognition can be intentional, but cognitive behaviors often form from outside of the currently active behavior cluster before they take over, which could indeed be described as "arising without intentionality".
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Perfect. (And, thanks for continuing to indulge me.) Let's take the case of intentional metacognition: the active cluster, whatever it comprises, is what is determining the character of the conscious experience, is that correct?
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Conscious experience is probably a memory of the contents of attention, i.e. a small subset of the currently active cognitive behaviors, but accessible only a few hundred or thousand milliseconds after the fact.
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Sorry, I'm not sure I'm continuing to track the conception of free will here. Are you positing a capacity for free will *outside* the context of a conscious experience? (Regardless of it's status as memory-as-attention)
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Yes. Free will is an ascription that we apply to elements of a narrative about our activities. This narrative is often only created retroactively when we need it, and may involve a high degree of fictitiousness.
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(I need to get some sleep and may continue tomorrow.)
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