Abstract
Following Locke, I have claimed that a self is no more than a series of interconnected activities, accompanied and guided by a common inner consciousness. According to this assumption, a human being will have a sense of self if and only if:
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he or she is active, mentally and bodily
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experiences some of these activities from the inside, first-person perspective, and
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is able to control — and has an experience of controlling — some of these activities.
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Vollmer, F. (1999). Darkness, Madness and Childhood. In: Agent Causality. Synthese Library, vol 283. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-9225-3_9
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