Do you believe in free will?

[Angrboda]

"[T]hat this ciriticism was at least partially correct, that there is no self as a thing as far as we can tell, only as an effect of a machine?"

"Certainly the brain "causes" the I, but the brain is not the "I"."

Your current statement and my original statement. They are saying the same thing. The only person who has changed anything is you, by equivocating about the place until you finally end up agreeing with what I originally said. But yeah, I can see how agreeing with what you now say to be true is me being wrong.

(Oh, and if you would be so kind, I'd appreciate a reference to those later comments of Churchland. Thanks.)

(And here from Genkaus is an example of exactly why I was making the distinction I was making, which I explicitly labeled as a problem for the compatibilist: "Formation of ego does not separate your from causal chain. It creates "you" as a separate entity within the causal chain - separate from the rest of the chain. ")