A New Ideomotor Theory of Voluntary Control

Abstract

Explore a fortuitous connection between the Global Workspace (GW) theory . . . and William James's ideomotor theory of voluntary control which proposed that voluntary actions are initiated by uncontested conscious goal images GW theory attempts to work out an architectural solution to the question of consciousness and its functional role in the nervous system there is remarkable fit between James's very sophisticated observations about voluntary control, made a century ago, and the system architecture suggested by GW theory .