Somewhere in the first third of Consciousness Explained, DD proposes that neurons or clusters thereof can do the operations proper to other (neurons or clusters). I need to find out where he seems to say this as well as what he really does say there, because.... it sounds like the Aristotelian concept of appropriation (the last term is my name for what De sensu has the sensus communis doing vis-à-vis the proper senses, comparing the former to a craftsman using instruments).
Here is a summary and comments on the essay Freedom and Resentment by PF Strawson. He makes some great points, and when he is wrong, it is in such a way as to clarify things a great deal. My non-deterministic position is much better thanks to having read this. I’ll summarize it in this post and respond in a later one. In a nutshell: PFS first argues that personal resentment that we may feel toward another for having failed to show goodwill toward us would have no problem coexisting with the conviction that determinism is true. Moral disapprobation, as an analog to resentment, is likewise capable of coexisting with deterministic convictions. In fact, it would seem nearly impossible for a normally-constituted person (i.e., a non-sociopath) to leave behind the web of moral convictions, even if that person is a determinist. In this way, by arguing that moral and determinist convictions can coexist in the same person, PFS undermines the libertarian argument ...
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