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by HarHarVeryFunny 683 days ago
Pretty sure our identify is just that of the actor behind our own actions.

i.e. Our brain models causal relationships, sees the correlation between it's own pre-action thoughts and the following action, and therefore models itself as an actor/causal agent responsible for these thoughts and actions.

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Thank you for this, it’s stirred up a considerable amount of thought in me, but I would also say that my immediate reaction is that

> its own pre-action thoughts and the following action

Can also be a sort of spatial processing