(March 15, 2012 at 12:14 pm)Rhythm Wrote: (Looking for a more definitive source, thusfar all I can get are unverified remarks about a speaking engagement and the softening of those parts of the Churchland's positions that followed after criticism of things they seem to feel they don't have much at stake in. Specifically with regards to eliminating folk psychology. Care to help me source it? You might be more familiar. It may just be some un-sourced and unjustified thing that slipped into the general conversation surrounding EM, one never knows)
Naw, as you suggest, I'm a little rusty. My point in all this, assuming I had one, is that unqualifiedly equating "the self" with the brain is that it is too much — the compatibilist is arguing that there is a self that can be defined as somehow an identifiable and self-contained entity in the causal chain, that gives the compaitibilist notion that the self is doing anything at all more credibility than it deserves; in my opinion, that's giving the compatibilist half the argument for free.