0 past simple and past participle of will --
1 If you will something to happen, you try to make it happen by the power of your thoughts: --
2 to arrange to give money or property to others after your death --
Conversations are driven by willed goals + speakers and writers try to achieve communicative intentions, and listeners and readers try to recover these intentions.
Consciously willed actions, on the other hand, give the mind the opportunity to identify itself as author.
To escape, we must allow that one mental event in the illusory causal sequence is not experienced as an intentional willed act.
The word "feverish" makes the pleasure at once willed and still sick, while "naturalness" remains a principle under severe strain.
Intentions, plans, and other thoughts can be experienced, and still the action is not willed if the person says it was not.
Attention to action: willed and automatic control of behaviour.
A number of other investigators have approached the problem of localizing willed action by examining activations during choice tasks.
Without an experience of willing, even actions that look entirely voluntary from the outside still fall short of qualifying as truly willed.
