Ashwani Gupta

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In automatism, the sense of agency may be missing altogether. Examples include possession and trance in religious ceremonies, posthypnotic suggestion, Ouija board games, dowsing, and other pseudo-occult phenomena. Participants vehemently deny that they caused these things to happen. Instead, they project responsibility onto distant gods, spirits, or the hypnotist.
Consciousness: Confessions of a Romantic Reductionist (The MIT Press)
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