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Shaun Nichols: Great Philosophical Debates (AudiobookFormat, 2008, The Teaching Company) No rating

On the lecture about some incompatibilist views like epiphenomenalism, the buddhist concept of no-self.

Epiphenomenalism claims that our conscious experience of making decisions or even feeling pain when touching a needle is just a side effect and has not relevance to the actions such as pulling your hand away from the needle. This view does not depend on whether determinism is true. A reduced and probably more plausible claim would be that this only applies to the way we make decisions.

In Buddhist philosophy the concept of no-self claims that the self is just an illusion, there is nothing that could be called a persisting self choosing and acting from moment to moment, there is just a sequence of connected events in the mind, prior ones causing the subsequent ones. This also does not require determinism at least beyond the mind itself.