(2019-02-19, 12:05 AM)nbtruthman Wrote: The "I" with the mysterious power of agency, that can control to some extent what "bubbles up" and especially whether it is responded to or not. This reminds me of Michael Egnor's thoughts about Benjamin Libet's research from his article that I quoted in the beginning post of this thread:
I'm not sure why the control mechanism has to be indeterministic. It might be highly attuned to the current state of affairs ("Would this be a good thing to utter right now?"), but that does not imply indeterminism.
~~ Paul
If the existence of a thing is indistinguishable from its nonexistence, we say that thing does not exist. ---Yahzi