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Pigeonofthesea8 t1_jd6mgre wrote

Reply to comment by scrollbreak in In-depth interview with Gregg Caruso, free-will skeptic by fatsosis

Yes because personal identity is a subjective reality. We have a sense of ourselves as bounded, relatively continuous & coherent over time and in space in the experiencing, self-aware self. But there’s no doubt that intrinsic and extrinsic factors shape and move us, from your microbiome or thyroid to language and cultural ideologies.

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scrollbreak t1_jd6scxo wrote

IMO you're not really saying what you're committed to. Saying 'We have a sense...', doesn't say what you're committed to yourself and any contradiction that might be pointed out with such a commitment.

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Pigeonofthesea8 t1_jd806mv wrote

The Cartesian self aware self is self evidently unified in time and place, the experiencing self

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tjscobbie t1_jd6z0cz wrote

This seems totally incoherent. What are you trying to say here?

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