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An economy of consciousness - tis.so

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by Suspended Reason A response to Neil’s provocative “What is an agent? post, where he discusses Freud’s notion that an individual agent can be

by Suspended Reason A response to Neil’s provocative “What is an agent? post, where he discusses Freud’s notion that an individual agent can be conceptually decomposed into sub-agents, and that these sub-agents might censor information from one another. I agree with the decomposition, but I think the censorship metaphor—while common—is misleading. Conscious awareness is often assigned a sort of default status—as if the self were automatically, and costlessly, self-transparent. Against this default self-transparency, we may sometimes self-censor, but the self-censoring is something…

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