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This is a 3 page paper that provides an overview of free will and observational learning. Brief cursory overviews are carried out for each topic. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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idea that one may not be directly in charge of ones actions at all times is a frightening and alien prospect. However, powerful arguments can be made against personal agency
when one considers the construction of the universe in terms of its most basic mechanics, and the reactive movement of atoms in the universe, set on an irreversible course at
the moment of the Big Bang that still dictates all actions through an infinite complex chain of determined causality. On the other hand, however, the experiences of everyday individuals seems
to refute determinism in a phenomenological way: when one goes about ones life and takes actions, one has the real sense that one is actually in control of ones life
and decisions, and this can be a difficult assumption to overcome. To meaningfully study the phenomenon of free will and determinism, then, one must attempt to reconcile the scientific
mechanics of determinism with the phenomenological experience of self-control. One 2007 study looks at this connection from the context of consumer behavior, because it is one of the most encapsulated
and easy to study examples of goal directed behavior in modern society (Wertenbroch, Vosgerau, & Bruyneel, 2007). Certainly, the entire discipline of marketing and advertising, and indeed the entire basis
of consumer society, is predicated upon an assumption of free will, and in particular, the belief in agency that "arises from customers phenomenological experience of exercising self-control in the face
of moral or inter-temporal conflicts of will" (Wertenbroch, Vosgerau, & Bruyneel, 2007). From observing consumer behaviors, it becomes clear that to some extent, it is possible for self-control to
exist independently of free will. For instance, the 2007 study observed that purchasing decisions seemed to be based as much upon precommitment of intention as upon willpower (Wertenbroch, Vosgerau, &
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