I'm thinking that this topic is really the argument for intelligent design in miniature.
We can give a scientific causal explanation for the operations of the brain. There is no end to these explanations.
We stop the empirical causal explanations thru the linguistic convention of the 'self'. "I" am a free responsible agent, determining my actions. There's no empirical evidence of the self, but we attribute agency to the self and stop any further causal explantions by invoking it.
We do precisely the same thing with God and the universe except in that instance there is no internal experience of God giving credibility to the existence of the mysterious cosmic agent. As a result, it is much easier to get rid of the linguistic convention of 'God' than it is to get rid of the linguistic convention of t he self. But despite our internal convictions of responsible agency(especially on the part of those libertarians), there's no scientific evidence we actually exist.

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