There’s a related process of confabulation where, not only do we placidly go along with what we’re doing under the default assumption that we chose to do it, but we retroactively edit our memories of having intended to do things to bring them in line with what we subsequently did, and otherwise to create the illusion that we’re in control.
Recovering from major brain trauma is a particularly vivid way to experience one’s conscious self “taking credit” for things that it has nothing at all to do with, IME. I have a lot of amusing-in-retrospect memories of experiencing “Hey, I just figured out how to do X! Aren’t I clever!” for Xes (like being able to move my leg) that had nothing whatsoever to do with “figuring out” anything.
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There’s a related process of confabulation where, not only do we placidly go along with what we’re doing under the default assumption that we chose to do it, but we retroactively edit our memories of having intended to do things to bring them in line with what we subsequently did, and otherwise to create the illusion that we’re in control.
Recovering from major brain trauma is a particularly vivid way to experience one’s conscious self “taking credit” for things that it has nothing at all to do with, IME. I have a lot of amusing-in-retrospect memories of experiencing “Hey, I just figured out how to do X! Aren’t I clever!” for Xes (like being able to move my leg) that had nothing whatsoever to do with “figuring out” anything.