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Ideas for Daniel Dennett, Karl Marx and Georges Rey

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16. Persons / A. Concept of a Person / 4. Persons as Agents
3797 I am the sum total of what I directly control [Dennett]
16. Persons / B. Nature of the Self / 4. Presupposition of Self
7385 People accept blurred boundaries in many things, but insist self is All or Nothing [Dennett]
16. Persons / B. Nature of the Self / 6. Self as Higher Awareness
4881 Being a person must involve having second-order beliefs and desires (about beliefs and desires) [Dennett]
3223 Self-consciousness may just be nested intentionality [Rey]
16. Persons / B. Nature of the Self / 7. Self and Body / c. Self as brain controller
7383 The psychological self is an abstraction, not a thing in the brain [Dennett]
16. Persons / C. Self-Awareness / 4. Errors in Introspection
3162 Experiments prove that people are often unaware of their motives [Rey]
3163 Brain damage makes the unreliability of introspection obvious [Rey]
16. Persons / E. Rejecting the Self / 2. Self as Social Construct
22598 The authentic self exists at the level of class, rather than the individual [Marx, by Dunt]
7386 Selves are not soul-pearls, but artefacts of social processes [Dennett]
16. Persons / E. Rejecting the Self / 3. Narrative Self
7381 We tell stories about ourselves, to protect, control and define who we are [Dennett]
7382 We spin narratives about ourselves, and the audience posits a centre of gravity for them [Dennett]
16. Persons / E. Rejecting the Self / 4. Denial of the Self
7370 The brain is controlled by shifting coalitions, guided by good purposeful habits [Dennett]
7655 The work done by the 'homunculus in the theatre' must be spread amongst non-conscious agencies [Dennett]
16. Persons / F. Free Will / 1. Nature of Free Will
3800 You can be free even though force would have prevented you doing otherwise [Dennett, by PG]
3803 Can we conceive of a being with a will freer than our own? [Dennett]
16. Persons / F. Free Will / 2. Sources of Free Will
3791 Awareness of thought is a step beyond awareness of the world [Dennett]
3794 Foreknowledge permits control [Dennett]
16. Persons / F. Free Will / 5. Against Free Will
3196 Free will isn't evidence against a theory of thought if there is no evidence for free will [Rey]
3195 If reason could be explained in computational terms, there would be no need for the concept of 'free will' [Rey]