Ginkgo wrote: ↑Fri Nov 04, 2016 3:55 am
Philosophy Explorer wrote:Nowheres and everywheres.
PhilX
Funny you should say that. Dennett's Multiple Drafts theory attempts to debunk the Cartesian Theatre. Dennett proposes a multiple drafts model, whereby the "self" is a brain state spread throughout the brain in place and time. Prinz, on the other hand, proposes an Attended Intermediate Level Representation theory, whereby the "self" arises at the intermediate level of perception. In both cases Prinz and Dennett would claim "self" is illusory. Both theories are compatible with materialism/physicalism.
That would seem to mean there are no objects, simply an object. That there are no constituents of the universe, there is just universe. Yet the funny thing is, that individual people would not only disagree with this particular hypothesis but many others as well. If there are no selves, then it would seem that we'd all agree, and know everything about everything. Self is just this particular package of matter. That we each are born of and exist within the entirety of the single universe is immaterial to the fact that it has many groupings of matter contained within it. A self is any particular grouping, it is in and of it-self, yet contained within, a part of, the one!