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    It is not the case that Human beings must execute the plans they conceive.

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    • 1.Neurological compulsion, addiction, and akrasia demonstrate that agents routinely conceive plans they are causally incapable of executing.
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    • 2.Frankfurt's cases show that external mechanisms can block execution of conceived plans without removing the agent's authorship of those plans.
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    • 1.Descartes' deceiving demon and Putnam's brain-in-a-vat scenarios establish that conceiving a plan is logically separable from any corresponding bodily execution.
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    • 2.If conception and execution are logically separable, the claim that humans *must* execute their conceived plans conflates a contingent causal tendency with a necessary connection.
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    Reasons Against

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    • 1.Planned conduct is both complex and orderly, requiring an author who both designs and carries out the plan.
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    • 2.Human beings are obviously the ones who think up their own plans.
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