Kevin Simler

In schizophrenia (in my understanding) you have access consciousness and a unified phenomenal consciousness, but you don't feel agency when you act or a sense of self. There is no other "agent", and no other "watcher" in your Cartesian Theater (contd)

So does that hypothetical other agent have any of 1) access consciousness 2) phenomenal consciousness 3) a sense of self 4) emotion & motivation? Schizophrenics don't even have one whole sense of self, why should they have more than one then? (contd)

"Tulpas" do *not* have their own access consciousness OR their own phenomenal consciousness. And traumatic memory suppression != tulpa.

I don't think a tulpa-like "agent" has a "mind" of "consciousness" of its own, or agency for that matter

Tell what about what? Schizophrenia? Tulpas? Boltzmann Brains? If you ask me why there can't be a 2nd phenomenal consciousness without a 2nd access consciousness: Well, what's the difference between that and Boltzmann Brains?

And then there are all these hairy questions about agency and embodied cognition.