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Single Idea 3820

[catalogued under 16. Persons / B. Nature of the Self / 5. Self as Associations]

Full Idea

Agency must be added to the bundle to account for how embodied bundles engage in free actions, and selfhood must be added to account for how agents can act rationally.

Gist of Idea

The bundle must also have agency in order to act, and a self to act rationally

Source

John Searle (Rationality in Action [2001], Ch.3.VII)

Book Reference

Searle,John R.: 'Rationality in Action' [MIT 2001], p.84


A Reaction

I don't buy much of this, but I am inclined to say that a will must be added to the bundle to explain why it acts consistently and coherently. It is certainly ridiculous to rest with the picture of a person as a completely unstructured bundle.