Mark Linsenmayer
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first heard Jun 2026
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Yeah, some of this is unpacked by you know, the the we had a whole chapter on the self in consciousness explained.
Just that it is you might think that the self is
Like Descartes sees it as a correlate of the qualia.
Right, I have introspective access to the contents of my consciousness.
There must be something that has those contents of consciousness.
We can call it the transcendental ego, we can call it the uh the self, whatever you want.
But in in trying to dismiss this folk psychology view of consciousness as he sees it, this uh native dualism, he's gonna wanna say that no, in fact, the self is not some hidden thing that has
as our perceptions.
The perceptions are just or you know, thoughts, it's experiences, you know, these things are just going on in the brain and uh
You could say you know, they happen in lots of different places in the brain.
There's not like one, oh, there's the self part that is lighting up every time you have an experience again.
So that's a physiological thing, but also then philosophically, right, that uh and this is a
I want to read this book by Chalmers on the embodied mind, the extended mind.
That's the name of it, I believe.
That since the mind is basically a
a fiction, the self is basically a fiction that is put together, like it can extend itself to the external tools.
So like when you use your smartphone, I think Chalmer says, that essentially becomes part of your mind.
And you might say, oh, isn't us using calculators and smartphones, isn't that make us dumb making us dumber?
Well, no, because we have extensions to our minds.
We uh you know, which means that our mind is actually bigger.
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