@misc{cogprints257, volume = {3}, title = {The Origins of Selves}, author = {Daniel C Dennett}, year = {1989}, pages = {163--173}, journal = {Cogito}, url = {http://cogprints.org/257/}, abstract = {What is a self? Since Descartes in the 17th Century we have had a vision of the self as a sort of immaterial ghost that owns and controls a body the way you own and control your car.} }