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Self-organization of power at will
1Department of History and Philosophy of Science, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, University Campus, Ano Ilisia, Athens15771, Greece. etzafestas@phs.uoa.gr; http://en.phs.uoa.gr/faculty-and-staff/faculty/elpida-tzafestas.html.
Abstract:
We challenge and extend Ainslie's top-down view of willpower as a dual function, resolve and suppression. Instead, we propose an alternative self-organizational view of the motivational system as a network of urges, incentives, drives, and so on that interact dynamically. With such a view, resolve, suppression, and other functions emerge under certain environmental and social conditions for certain personality profiles.
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