but who decided that I should do that one thing from among the cacophony of other possibilities? Was there some kind of contest? I do not feel like a democratic consensus arrived at by a billion cells; I feel like a single me. And I feel as if ‘I’ am in charge, capable of deciding right now to think a different thought or do a different thing. I have free will – by which I mean (the definition comes from John Searle) that I could have done otherwise than I in fact did. And that, moreover, the things I could have done otherwise were neither the products of preceding forces, nor the products of
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