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Ideas for 'Through the Looking Glass', 'Discourse on Metaphysics' and 'Elbow Room: varieties of free will'

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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 / D. Continuity of the Self / 2. Mental Continuity / a. Memory is Self

5027	If a person's memories became totally those of the King of China, he would be the King of China [Leibniz]

16. Persons / F. Free Will / 1. Nature of Free Will

5023	Future contingent events are certain, because God foresees them, but that doesn't make them necessary [Leibniz]

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 / 6. Determinism / a. Determinism

2119	People argue for God's free will, but it isn't needed if God acts in perfection following supreme reason [Leibniz]