An aggregate cannot be the ego or account for the unity of apperception.
The ego must be a substantial continuant.
But must it be immaterial?
What if the cogito, and much else besides, belongs to the brain, not as aggregate, but as a thinking thing, a substantive ego?
All the functions of the platonic, augustinian, cartesian soul and more, ascribed to the brain, the organ of thought, and other functions, too.
This is not a materialism or physicalism.
But it is not a spiritualism, either.
Update, 8/5.
Nor is it Thomism.
There is no suggestion here of a separable intellectual part of the soul.
The cogito is ascribed to the composite.
And mortality is as built in as it is with materialism.
Update, 8/7.
And yet, l don't believe this for a second.
The brain is no more a substance than the entire living human body.
The brain and body are mere aggregates.
And the thinking think, the Ego, is a substance.
Back to Descartes, Augustine, and Aquinas.
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