
Wednesday, 21 January 2015
Self Requisite For Causation? Part III

Part 1 Here
Cause
For Concern?
When
we start to bring in theories related to mental causation of
non-conscious processes we have uncovered some stark contradictions
in our thinking, and also these questions have arisen so far in our
investigation:
How is it that we and others think emotions and reactions...
Wednesday, 7 January 2015
Self Requisite For Causation? Part II

Self Requisite For Causation? Part II
Part 1 Here
Mental causation?
In our Cartesian picture we referred to the fact that this self, whatever that may be ultimately, is the cause of various forms of cognition and action. The first thing we need to do then is delineate exactly what it is that this self would or would not be responsible for,...
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