An idea from The World as Will and Representation

There is one thing you know from inside as well as outside: your own body. When you decide to raise your arm, the deciding and the rising are not cause and effect. They are one act seen from two sides, and the inner side gets the name will.

From The World as Will and Representation by Arthur Schopenhauer

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