Sense of agency

What is the sense of agency? The term ‘sense of agency’ refers to the experience of controlling one's own actions, and, through them, events in the outside world. Most of us have the feeling that we are in control of what we are doing most of the time: this is the normal sense of agency. Why is it important? Some many mental illnesses involve abnormalities of agency: psychotic patients sometimes report that their actions are not their own, but...