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Ideas for 'Parmenides', 'Human Knowledge: its scope and limits' and 'Notebooks 1914-1916'

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16. Persons / B. Nature of the Self / 4. Presupposition of Self

22323	The philosophical I is the metaphysical subject, the limit - not a part of the world [Wittgenstein]
	Full Idea: The philosophical I is not the man, not the human body, or the human soul of wh9ch psychology treats, but the metaphysical subject, the limit - not a part of the world.
	From: Ludwig Wittgenstein (Notebooks 1914-1916 [1915], 1916. 2 Sep), quoted by Michael Potter - The Rise of Analytic Philosophy 1879-1930 58 Intro
	A reaction: This is to treat the self as a phenomenon of thought, rather than of a human being. So if a machine could think, would it hence necessarily have a metaphysical self?