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>From: zlsiida@fs1.mcc.ac.uk (dave budd)
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Subject: What is you? (was Grounding etc
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In article <1992May23.175305.21291@organpipe.uug.arizona.edu> bill@ca3 (Bill Skaggs) writes:

>  But what is "you"?

ego, superego, id, etc: I like to think of them as autonomous processes
involved in various ways in the data flow round the brain. "you" is pretty 
much the ego. 


>  You have fallen into the trap that Dennett calls the "Cartesian
>Theater"; see "Consciousness Explained" for an explanation.

OK


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