What makes you think people can't, in at least some cases, control their emotional responses?
> Now, you may think you are choosing how you act on that emotional response, but even that "choice" in how you react to the emotional stimulus is dictated by, it or pr dictated on all previous experience which have formed all your responses.
I think most accounts of what a "self" or "I" is would say that at least in part, the self is an embodied compression/distillation of learnings from your previous experiences. Saying your previous experiences determine how you respond to something doesn't necessarily remove an "I" from the system - unless, I guess, your idea of a self is some kind of entity that is completely separate from experience, which seems like an unusual way to define a self.
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What makes you think people can't, in at least some cases, control their emotional responses?
> Now, you may think you are choosing how you act on that emotional response, but even that "choice" in how you react to the emotional stimulus is dictated by, it or pr dictated on all previous experience which have formed all your responses.
I think most accounts of what a "self" or "I" is would say that at least in part, the self is an embodied compression/distillation of learnings from your previous experiences. Saying your previous experiences determine how you respond to something doesn't necessarily remove an "I" from the system - unless, I guess, your idea of a self is some kind of entity that is completely separate from experience, which seems like an unusual way to define a self.