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NOTES ON DANIEL DENNETT’S TALK

SELF

1 – Ability To Choose Action. (necessity)

2 – Maximum energy-economic value. (evolutionary utility)

3 – Center of gravity=”preferential decidability” (seems not only common but universal)

4 – Competitive centers of gravity (common, but one observer?)

5 – Undecidable centers of gravity (uncommon but … solipsism to autism?)

The common Error of mechanistic and material (cells), rather than persistent information within the limits of human actions that the cells make possible. Information can persist across cell lifetimes if only by revisiting memories.

We evolve from ‘mostly personality’ to ‘mostly memories’.

As someone who has had many episodes of unconsciousness it is very clear to me that as we ‘wake’ the ‘self’ exists prior to memory, and is identifiable to the increasing layers of introspection.

It has made me extremely conscious of the change in my ‘self’ how it relies upon my personality’s biases, and then as memory increasingly becomes available, how we adjust perception as we retain consciousness.