What is the self?

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11 Comments

melsaskca@lemmy.ca · 10 pts · 290d

It's a constant battle between cogito ergo sum and esse est percipi.

Perspectivist@feddit.uk · 9 pts · 289d

It's an illusion that there is a centre to consciousness. It's a subjective feeling that you are located somewhere up there behind your face looking out into the world, authoring your thoughts and making decisions.

TheLeadenSea@sh.itjust.works · 8 pts · 290d

A fleeting subjective experience in an ocean of possible experiences.

Xaphanos@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 290d

A complex interaction between your unique memories, your unique biological composition, your past and present environments, and the ongoing neurological processes that experience and interpret them.

Isa@feddit.org · 6 pts · 290d (2 replies)

arviceblot@midwest.social · 3 pts · 290d (1 reply)

What do you want?

Isa@feddit.org · 1 pts · 289d

Peace

6nk06@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 290d
Lexam@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 289d

Oh it's me. Hi, how's it going?

TribblesBestFriend@startrek.website · 1 pts · 289d

It’s the thing in the corner of your flat, that’s where you put plants or book you’ll say you’ll read but you will not

Steelpan@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 289d

The self is that which knows itself as it actually is.