Perhaps I should have been more explicit. However, I started this way:
I perceive myself as a self- aware being capable of choice. I am surer of that than of the evidence of my senses, which seem to me less reliable. I also perceive myself as circumstanced in a world which is not- me, since it is recalcitrant, and inherently limits my choices. My "empirical self" seems to be constructed out of the interaction between myself and the world, or experience. The primary locus of experience is my body, particularly the senses and the place where they are processed (the brain). I perceive my body as "belonging to me", but not me. That part of the "empirical self" which I perceive as being me is called the personality, and is the primary locus of interaction between myself and the world.
Then, in the last section, I contrasted that with Man as Automaton. I thought the contrast would be evident, but I may have been mistaken. Anyway, later!......... |
