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SectionIIITHESELFEgos,BundlesandMultipleSelvesTheoriesofSelfAgencyandFreeWillVII:Egos,Bundles,andMultipleSelves“WhydoesitseemasthoughIamasingle,continuousselfwhohasexperiences?”EgoTheories::Itmayseemthisway,buttherereallyisnoself,,Islam,ChristianitySubstanceDualismReidputsitbest:“Iamnotthought,Iamnotaction,Iamnotfeeling:Iamsomethingwhichthinks,andacts,“bundleofsensations”MultiplePersonalityDisordersCaseofMultipleSelvesSplitBrains/SplitConsciousnessEachsidehasdifferentqualitiesBothhemisphereshavetheabilitytodothingswhichtheotherhemispheresoftenlack.“Sperry(1968)thoughtthattheseresultsrevealedadoublingofconsciousawareness,andeventhathispatientshadtwofreewillsinonecranialvaultVIII:TheoriesofSelfMindswitching“bodies”Whichpersonareyou?Doyoustillholdqualitieswhichareintrinsictoyourconceptof“self”QuestionofReplication…Mind,BodyWouldyoudoit?Isthereanydifference?WilliamJames“Thoughtitselfisthethinkerandpsychologyneednotlookbeyond”Thewayitseems:2partsofself:empiricalself(materialself,socialself,andspiritualself),andsubjectiveself(ourconceptofourownconsciousnessandperceptions)ThePassingThought…“TheThought”NeuroscientificModelsofSelfRamachandran:GhostintheMachineDamasio:urs…itisa“feeling,andfeelingsareneuralpatterns”GWT:GlobalWorkspaceTheory:(neithercontinuousconsciousnessnorunlinkedsetsofexperiences)t“Ourtalesarespun,butforthemostpartwedon’tspinthem;theyspinus.”Howmanyselves>,<or=1perbody?