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Old 05-16-2008, 06:27 PM
Paul C. Anagnostopoulos Paul C. Anagnostopoulos is offline
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Originally Posted by Ian
Replace the concept of a little man in us by a self -- a non-physical self. Then we don't get any such absurdity, we just have a two-term relationship. Of course proposing such a self means it lies outside the scope of science, but that has always been my precise position.
Why don't we get exactly the same absurdity?

And could you explain the absurdity in more detail, please? Why does the little man need a littler man inside? It's not as if our self-awareness is infinitely nested. For example, we have no experience of how we actually think.

~~ Paul
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