Some thinkers like to say that there are two perspectives on all of this. There is the deliberative, first-person stance you adopt when you yourself are making a choice. And there is an ‘objective’ or third-person stance, one that a scientist might take, seeing you as a complex, determined, neurophysiological system. The problem lies in reconciling the two stances. If the problem is put this way, then the right solution is surely this. There would only be a difficulty about reconciliation if what is disclosed in the deliberative stance is incompatible with what is disclosed in the third-person
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