I don't even think that this person should be disagreeing with the Dawkins quote, because to the extent that I can find a thesis, Dawkins' blind robot vehicles

I don't even think that this person should be disagreeing with the Dawkins quote, because to the extent that I can find a thesis, Dawkins' blind robot vehicles support it. If you realize that "we" are observers of our thoughts, and not necessarily thinkers, it's weird to overvalue the worth of introspection. Introspection is a liar. It seems like the beginning of this thing is proposing some sort of therapeutic dualism, where you can have a thought that you object to (why do you object to it?), and assign that thought to your body through another thought (the realization that the thought is not me), and peacefully live thought-free. Now it's not a mind-body dualism, but a thought-metathought dualism that is even less likely. The reason these people were and are great thinkers is because of their comfort in abstraction and objectivity, and their disdain for introspection. You can't transcend thinking by thinking harder.