THERE YOU GO AGAIN...:

The I in Me: a review of Selves: An Essay in Revisionary Metaphysics by Galen Strawson (Thomas Nagel, November 2009, LRB)

What are you, really? To the rest of the world you appear as a particular human being, a publicly observable organism with a complex biological and social history and a name. But to yourself, more intimately, you appear as ‘I’, the mental subject of your experiences, thoughts, feelings, memories and emotions. This inner self is only indirectly observable by others, though they ordinarily have no doubt about its existence, as you have no doubt about their inner lives.

He's fallen into the same trap as always. Everything beginning with "rest of the world" depends on faith.

Posted by Orrin Judd at October 30, 2009 3:03 PM