Hamlet and the Placement of Self
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1. a. There seem to be only three places where a person with a remote-controlled body could be--were his brain is, where his body is, and where his point of view is--but all three possibilities are problematic.2. The reason that 1.a is the best answer is that it gives the most coherent account of how to conceptualize the problem of placement of the person. The sense impressions of Hamlet, the material body, more clearly generate preferences and ideas that can be linked to the quality of feeling the location of "I." The problem with that, of course, is that the ideas themselves come from Yorick, the brain. Even so, the body has the experience of projection into the world that seems peculiarly independent of the neurotransmitter activity of Yorick. That is proved by the hard-to-shed sense that I's point of view is that of Hamlet (313). The ambhguities of beinf mistaken about where one is, yielding to the illusions created by Cinerama (or flight simulator), or learning to operate a robot are maybe worth mentioning (314-15). But really they seem like a false scent, on the order of answer 1.b, and answer 1.c, while plausible in terms of imagina
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