[Open Mind]

Originally Posted by Paul C. Anagnostopoulos

Probably, although we may have different definitions of some of the terms she used.

You say we have freewill, Blackmore says we don't .... you obviously don't agree on the very meaning of the word 'freewill'?

'...... 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