Full Idea
Control is the ultimate criterion of the self: I am the sum total of the parts I control directly.
Gist of Idea
I am the sum total of what I directly control
Source
Daniel C. Dennett (Elbow Room: varieties of free will [1984], §4.2)
Book Reference
Dennett,Daniel C.: 'Elbow Room - Free will worth wanting' [MIT 1999], p.82
A Reaction
This looks awfully like a flagrant self-contradiction, and I think it is. It seems pretty obvious that there is at least a distinction between the bit or bits that do the controlling, and the bits that get controlled.