Another person to get into this conversation is Bob Scharf.https://philpapers.org/rec/SHAIYP
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And this is a great paper (TBH, all of his are), though it definitely reflects the conditions under which it was written (as all philosophy does)
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Also, Bill Waldron! (But this is getting very dude heavy! We’ll have to keep that in mind)
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can you believe in no-self and also illusionism? I mean I guess you *can*, but does it make any sense?
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At each moment, there's a mental event with misrepresentational content, with said content including the misrepresentation that the event is owned by a self
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This is such a tricky issue, as I believe in a persisting biological process, but I also deny the existence of selves as ontological posits. Selflessness generates a kind of phenomenological distancing from the solicitations that are usually present in the world. 1/2
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I don't see why no-self theorists can't continue to speak of *persons* existing and acting and being subject to illusions. They are just rejecting a certain metaphysical account of what persons are, aren't they?
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Maybe I buy the soteriological story. It seems to me that embracing no-self is supposed to be a huge deal for a person, a mammoth gestalt shift with serious consequences in how you live your life, not just knocking down a philosophical view (which may be a strawman)
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I agree that it entails a huge gestalt shift with real-life consequences. My disagreement is with those who think this can be justified by (false) claims like "neuroscience shows there is no self."
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I think I'm with you there.
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