The self does not have agency. The self is a model of the mind’s agency: it does not make but documents decisions, for learning and communication. That’s why the self is tied to the experience of volition. (The self is also a model of what the mind experiences and how it reacts.)
Collecting everything that could be true is only one half of the thought process. The other half is about throwing everything away that is not.
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I think that is what I am doing - throwing away untrue assumptions linking sensation to 'minds' and 'self' because they don't survive Occam's Razor. I think Descartes didn't go far enough. Thinking does not prove "I am", but it does prove 'thought (sense-making sensation) "is"'.
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Descartes makes incredible sense if his ideas are not read as ontological but phenomenological descriptions. Our mind does indeed represent res extensa (a physics engine full of moving stuff in an all-encompassing 3space) and res cogitans (other mental content) in different ways.
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