Hopefully_Anonymous comments on When Anthropomorphism Became Stupid - Less Wrong

14 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 16 August 2008 11:43PM

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Comment author: Hopefully_Anonymous 17 August 2008 03:52:49AM -2 points [-]

To the degree "thinking" or "deciding" actually exists, it's not clear to me that we as individuals are the actual agents, rather than observer subcomponents with an inflated sense of agency, perhaps a lot like the neurons but with a deluded/hallucinated sense of agency.