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What do you mean when you say Self? ?

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  • 03-12-2017 12:05am
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    badabing106
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    What are you? Are you your body? Your brain? What you studied? What other people describe you as? Are you the same person from birth to death?

    Or is just mental stuff happening? , are you a bundle of perceptions? . When considering our everyday natural assumption of an enduring self, is this a ‘fiction’ of the mind? Are you the universe experiencing itself through the medium of consciousness ?

    What exactly do you mean?


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    [Deleted User]
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    Mise


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    #3
    Vela
    Closed Accounts Posts: 437 ✭✭Vela


    Ah jeebus, it's too early on a Saturday night for this craic. I'll come back to you after a few tequila.


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    me_irl
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    OP go watch an Alan Watts video or something.


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    #5
    fineso.mom
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    I'm 48 and single for years , I'm a Self on the Shelf.


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    Pithythefool
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    I am Rocha, by John Rocha


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    server down
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    badabing106 wrote: »
    What are you? Are you your body? Your brain? What you studied? What other people describe you as? Are you the same person from birth to death?

    Or is just mental stuff happening? , are you a bundle of perceptions? . When considering our everyday natural assumption of an enduring self, is this a ‘fiction’ of the mind? Are you the universe experiencing itself through the medium of consciousness ?

    What exactly do you mean?

    Why would the self be a fiction? Consciousness and self consciousness aren’t fictions.


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    [Deleted User]
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    (Get ready for some profound ****..)

    The real self is a state of engagement..


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    #9
    longshanks
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    When I say self I mean me, the fella that eats kebabs.


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    Tellyium
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    Fundamental question!! Self is all that you have suggested and more. The parts of self that are emphasized change through life and are tightly coupled with sense of self worth, belief system and familial setting but we exist on social terms and that pretty much defines our sense of self. Short answer: we are who we are.


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    Junkyard Tom
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    This.


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    Insect Overlord
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    Cogito, ergo...


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    thedeere
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    It’s Conspectus.


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    me_irl
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    Insect Overlord wrote: »
    Cogito, ergo...

    Sum 41?


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    Birneybau
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    Haunted meat basically...


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    Cee-Jay-Cee
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    Shouldn’t this shít be in the philosophy forum or is it even too headwrecking for that forum too???


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    Fourier
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    It's a small town in Arkansas. That is what I always mean, e.g.

    "I hope your pleased with your self"

    Used when speaking to an inhabitant of Self, Arkansas.


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    eamonnq
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    We is who we is


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    Oldtree
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    I am the sum of all my parts and their experiences on this mortal coil :)


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    JackTaylorFan
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    According to a new paper just released from a) the Division of Psychology and Language Sciences, University College London and b) the School of Psychology, Cardiff University: The illusion of "self" is a by-product of the non-conscious state of being. Much like the subjective observance of a rainbow. It's the embodiment of a personal narrative which is in itself an accidental consequence of the non-conscious mind


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    corner of hells
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    fineso.mom wrote: »
    I'm 48 and single for years , I'm a Self on the Shelf.

    So , how you doin' ?


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    JenovaProject
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    JackTaylorFan wrote: »
    According to a new paper just released from a) the Division of Psychology and Language Sciences, University College London and b) the School of Psychology, Cardiff University: The illusion of "self" is a by-product of the non-conscious state of being. Much like the subjective observance of a rainbow. It's the embodiment of a personal narrative which is in itself an accidental consequence of the non-conscious mind

    Yeh,Ill go with that.
    Lots of big words.

    Self...yourself,myself,himself,herself.....thats all i got!!


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    JackTaylorFan
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    JenovaProject wrote: »
    Yeh,Ill go with that.
    Lots of big words.

    Self...yourself,myself,himself,herself.....thats all i got!!

    Welcome :)


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    JenovaProject
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    JackTaylorFan wrote: »
    Welcome :)

    Happy days:)...Im in the club!!!


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    JackTaylorFan
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    JenovaProject wrote: »
    Happy days:)...Im in the club!!!

    Lol... you'd be the first on Boards to wanna join any club I'm a member of :D


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    JenovaProject
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    JackTaylorFan wrote: »
    Lol... you'd be the first on Boards to wanna join any club I'm a member of :D

    I dont care...I got welcomed to the club,Im gonna embrace it!!!:):)


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    JackTaylorFan
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    JenovaProject wrote: »
    I dont care...I got welcomed to the club,Im gonna embrace it!!!:):)

    Ah, good for you :)

    Bienvenue and adieu


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