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Ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'Theory of Science (Wissenschaftslehre, 4 vols)' and 'Consciousness Explained'

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16. Persons / B. Nature of the Self / 4. Presupposition of Self
7385 People accept blurred boundaries in many things, but insist self is All or Nothing [Dennett]
16. Persons / B. Nature of the Self / 7. Self and Body / c. Self as brain controller
7383 The psychological self is an abstraction, not a thing in the brain [Dennett]
16. Persons / E. Rejecting the Self / 2. Self as Social Construct
7386 Selves are not soul-pearls, but artefacts of social processes [Dennett]
16. Persons / E. Rejecting the Self / 3. Narrative Self
7381 We tell stories about ourselves, to protect, control and define who we are [Dennett]
7382 We spin narratives about ourselves, and the audience posits a centre of gravity for them [Dennett]
16. Persons / E. Rejecting the Self / 4. Denial of the Self
7370 The brain is controlled by shifting coalitions, guided by good purposeful habits [Dennett]
16. Persons / F. Free Will / 4. For Free Will
20834 Chrysippus allows evil to say it is fated, or even that it is rational and natural [Plutarch on Chrysippus]
16. Persons / F. Free Will / 5. Against Free Will
20833 A swerve in the atoms would be unnatural, like scales settling differently for no reason [Chrysippus, by Plutarch]
16. Persons / F. Free Will / 6. Determinism / a. Determinism
20835 Chrysippus is wrong to believe in non-occurring future possibilities if he is a fatalist [Plutarch on Chrysippus]
20808 Everything is fated, either by continuous causes or by a supreme rational principle [Chrysippus, by Diog. Laertius]
16. Persons / F. Free Will / 6. Determinism / b. Fate
20837 Fate is an eternal and fixed chain of causal events [Chrysippus]
20836 The Lazy Argument responds to fate with 'why bother?', but the bothering is also fated [Chrysippus, by Cicero]
21679 When we say events are fated by antecedent causes, do we mean principal or auxiliary causes? [Chrysippus]
16. Persons / F. Free Will / 7. Compatibilism
5971 Destiny is only a predisposing cause, not a sufficient cause [Chrysippus, by Plutarch]