Soft Self
"There is no self, if by self we mean some central cognitive essence that makes me who and what I am. In its place there is just the 'soft self': a rough-and-tumble, control-sharing coalition of processes—some neural, some bodily, some technological—and an ongoing drive to tell a story, to paint a picture in which 'I' am the central player."
—From "Natural-Born Cyborgs" by Andy Clark
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I just got that book inhe mail today - don't know when I'llhave time to read it though - still haven't finished Lakoff's Moral Politics yet either :-) - just don't much feel like reading these days for some reason.
Posted by: The Dynamic Driveler | September 3, 2003 9:47 PM