The question of self. Dennet is here expanded through the use of Leibniz's monads as Kant's categories with self as a supercategory logically including all of Kant's categories.
Dennet has painted himself into a corner by following the materialistic view of
mind.
The agent or self is a function of mind (Leibniz's dominant monad), not a
material thing.
Leibniz and Kant combine through kant's categorial structure of mind shown
below.
I, II, III and IV are all monads.
The self or agent is not shown directly in Kant's categories. I will call it V.
V contains the other four categories as subsets. V is the self or dominant
monad.
It is the active observer and agent.
V Observing self or acting agent (contains Kant's
functional categories below as logical
subcategories)
Roger , [email protected]
8/11/2012
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Time: 2012-08-11, 04:08:29
Subject: Re: Where's the agent ? Who or what does stuff and is aware of stuff ?
The Dennet conception is made to avoid an agent in the first place because i
so, it whould be legitimate to question what is the agent made of an thus going
trough an infinite regression.
The question of the agent is the vivid intuition for which there are ingenious
evolutionary explanations which i may subscribe. But a robot would implement
such computations and still I deeply doubt about his internal notion oof self,
his quialia etc. The best response to many questions for the shake of avooiding
premature dogmatic closeness is to say "we don't know"
El 11/08/2012 07:57, "Stephen P. King" <[email protected]> escribi?:
>
> Hi Roger,
>
> ?? I have noticed and read your posts. Might you write some remarks about
> Leibniz' concept of pre-established harmony?
>
>
>
> On 8/10/2012 8:53 AM, Roger wrote:
>>
>> Hence I follow Leibniz, even though he's difficult and some say
>> contradictory. That agent or soul or self you have is your
>> monad, the only (alhough indirectly) perceiving/acting/feeling
>> agent in all of us, but currently missing in neuroscience and
>> neurophilosophy.
>
>
>
> --
> Onward!
>
> Stephen
>
> "Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed."
> ~ Francis Bacon
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