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'...... all human actions, whether conscious or not, come from complex interactions between genes, memes and all their products in complicated environments. The self is not the initiator of actions, it does not 'have' consciousness and does not 'do' the deliberating. There is no truth in the idea of an inner self inside my body that controls my body and is conscious. Since this is false, so is the idea of my conscious self having free-will.
Dennet (1984) has described many versions of the idea of free will and argues that some of them are worth wanting. Unlike Dennet I neither think the 'user illusion' is benign , nor do I want any version of free will that ascribes it to a self who does not exist.
Sue Blackmore – The Meme Machine, Page 237
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If the above study is correct, Blackmore is totally wrong to state ' I neither think the 'user illusion' is benign', a sense of freewill is not just benign, it increases honesty
(Hmmm ..... if Blackmore is also more prone to cheat due to her beliefs
......why does organized scepticism trust her viewpoint that was often out of step with other parapsychologists viewpoint? Yes she claims she believed in the paranormal back then but she writes she believed particularly in tarot ..... which is also rather .... er.... a tad deterministic? )