Do you believe in free will?

[Angrboda]

"Attempting to refute" lol, no, I'm asking if you have anything to add, from anywhere. I don't beat around the bush, I don't blather on about ancillary points. Is there a ghost in the machine? Simple question, simple answers. The thing that we refer to as "self" is understood to be an effect of the brain. Unless you disagree. If so, I'm dying to hear why. The idea is the machine, electrical impulses, chemical reactions. Arguments are unconvincing to me in the face of evidence. That you feel this is handwaving is unconvincing to me, in the face of evidence. What is it that you want, a statement of complete knowledge? We don't have it, but what we do have remains. That would be, again, in case I was unclear, evidence.

Something to add? No, still you misunderstand, either because you don't read, don't read well, or choose not to. It's not that I have something to add, it's that I have something to subtract. You claim that the self is an effect of the brain, specify what the effect is, or remove the undefined term. Heat is an effect of the brain, but you would not say that the heat given off is the self. Yet still you refuse to specify what your meaning is. Failing that, I can only conclude that everything you say about the self is meaningless. And there is no amount of evidence that can demonstrate the truth of a meaningless statement. Period. So your claim of evidence is a lie and a boast that you can't fulfill.

(Oh, and since you saw fit to assess my conduct by implying that I "beat around the bush" and "blather on about ancillary points", let me return the favor and claim that I am a careful reader of texts, unlike some people who apparently suffer problems with basic reading comprehension, or are otherwise defective either in specific competence, or lacking in general intellect. Isn't this fun — and you said you don't blather on about ancillary points; girlfriend, all your blather has been about ancillary points because of your incompetent and negligent reading of both my texts and cognitive science proper.)