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Full Idea
A self is conscious, persists through time, operates with reasons, carries out free actions, and is responsible.
Gist of Idea
Selfs are conscious, enduring, reasonable, active, free, and responsible
Source
John Searle (Rationality in Action [2001], Ch.3.X)
Book Ref
Searle,John R.: 'Rationality in Action' [MIT 2001], p.95
A Reaction
Personally I would substitute 'makes decisions' for 'carries out free actions', but otherwise I agree, though he seems to miss a key aspect, which is that the self is in charge of the mind, and directs its focus and co-ordinates its inputs and outputs.
| 1372 | Our personal identity must depend on something we are aware of, namely consciousness [Locke] |
| 1378 | My little finger is part of me if I am conscious of it [Locke] |
| 22865 | Habits constitute the self [Dewey] |
| 5664 | Consciousness must involve a subject, and only bodies identify subjects [Ayer] |
| 3826 | A self must at least be capable of consciousness [Searle] |
| 3829 | Selfs are conscious, enduring, reasonable, active, free, and responsible [Searle] |
| 6381 | The mind and the self are one, and the mind-self is a biological phenomenon [Polger] |