(July 28, 2015 at 8:09 am)bennyboy Wrote: Let me ask you a question. As a mental agent, would one's DNA and the instinctive behaviors beyond the control of conscious awareness be considered part of the mechanism of the subjective agent, or part of the objective environment? Since I have no control over those things, I would consider them objective to my subjective agency, even though other people seem them as part and parcel.
Well, the order of base pairs in your DNA is probably not a property of your mind, since we can ascertain them even if you die and no longer have a mind.
I don't know that conscious awareness "controls" anything, so I don't know what is or is not beyond that boundary.
I'm not really sure where you're going here. 'm not really going for a deep understanding of consciousness here; I mean the ordinary commonsense understandings of properties of minds per se, and relations of minds to objective physical reality.
