In this lecture, the British neuroscientist Patrick Haggard discusses aspects of the conscious experience of intention accompanying simple manual action in adult humans. He addresses questions such as: Is this experience generated prospectively, as a perception-like read out of motor preparation? Or is it more like a retrospective inference, made after the fact of our movement? Finally, how does this conscious experience relate to the features of our actions that we care about, such as their goal-directedness and reasons-responsiveness?