metis
aged ecumenical anthropologist
To love one another and do the best I can to help.What more important to you...
How you see yourself or how the world sees you?
Its not a debate. Its a discussion.
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To love one another and do the best I can to help.What more important to you...
How you see yourself or how the world sees you?
Its not a debate. Its a discussion.
What do you mean?I don't believe there's a self.
Humans don't have individual selves, it's just an illusion created by our thought processes. If anything we have many selves, but no uniform coherent self that brings all these things together.What do you mean?
I get what you're saying but I'm a bit sceptical about it........Humans don't have individual selves, it's just an illusion created by our thought processes. If anything we have many selves, but no uniform coherent self that brings all these things together.
i agree. We are not our minds. We are not the thoughts in our heads, We are conciousness . The conciousness behind the mindHumans don't have individual selves, it's just an illusion created by our thought processes. If anything we have many selves, but no uniform coherent self that brings all these things together.
Eastern philosophy says there is no "self." Science agrees
“Why are you unhappy? Because 99.9 percent of everything you think, and of everything you do, is for yourself — and there isn’t one.”bigthink.com
Perhaps you are wrong about yourself and never met the real you....I couldn't care less what others think since there is free will.
I just know that what I think of myself is what matters.
Uh oh... Now the conversation is going metaHumans don't have individual selves, it's just an illusion created by our thought processes. If anything we have many selves, but no uniform coherent self that brings all these things together.
Eastern philosophy says there is no "self." Science agrees
“Why are you unhappy? Because 99.9 percent of everything you think, and of everything you do, is for yourself — and there isn’t one.”bigthink.com
What more important to you...
How you see yourself or how the world sees you?
Its not a debate. Its a discussion.
Who I am means more to me than what other think I am.That's an interesting question. I don't really know.
They're both important to me. I guess, objectively, it easy to see that how one views oneself is most important. But subjectively speaking, at an instinctual level, I might be more inclined to concern myself with how the world sees me.
However what others think of you doesn't define who you are.How the world sees me, most definitely
Because no matter how much of a dim view of myself I may take I know that I will always accept myself
I have no other option
The same cannot be said about others
Reminds me of this...Humans don't have individual selves, it's just an illusion created by our thought processes. If anything we have many selves, but no uniform coherent self that brings all these things together.
Eastern philosophy says there is no "self." Science agrees
“Why are you unhappy? Because 99.9 percent of everything you think, and of everything you do, is for yourself — and there isn’t one.”bigthink.com
It's why I sometimes say there is an "Old Me" that is dead and gone and no more. That is someone who would not like me, at all, as I am now. Even who I was in Indiana became a new person when I moved to California.I get what you're saying but I'm a bit sceptical about it........
I feel as though I have a consistent and enduring self so surely this is a case of "I think therefore I am"?
I recall my son as a teenager. He was all liberal and also a Springsteen fan......when Springsteen was only doing onstage gigs. When Springsteen cut his first album or record, my son felt he was a trader to the cause, meaning Springsteen was trying to make money.It's why I sometimes say there is an "Old Me" that is dead and gone and no more. That is someone who would not like me, at all, as I am now. Even who I was in Indiana became a new person when I moved to California.
I know the real me.Perhaps you are wrong about yourself and never met the real you....
Yeah, that is unfortunate. Skills and abilities just arent the end-all, be-all in how far you'll go that they're hyped up to be.What people think of you can mean you make a good living or not....
Who I am means more to me than what other think I am.
I think that one scares people a bit, especially Westerners, especially Americans, because it's a blow to their hypothesis of free will. Some people call them masks, but fitting in with others is something we've evolved to do. We just do it, especially if we aren't aware we're doing it.But the way we act socially can tell a different story.