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What is the self?

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Submitted ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨lemmyknow@lemmy.today⁩ to ⁨[deleted]⁩

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  • Perspectivist@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    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.

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  • melsaskca@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

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

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  • TheLeadenSea@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    A fleeting subjective experience in an ocean of possible experiences.

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  • Xaphanos@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    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.

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  • 6nk06@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Everything is explained by one of our gods: …blogspot.com/…/why-explicit-self-has-to-stay.htm…

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  • Isa@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Meme showing the Vorlon ambassador Kosh from Babylon 5 in their suit and beneath that the words: Who are you?

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    • arviceblot@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      What do you want?

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      • Isa@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        Peace

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  • TribblesBestFriend@startrek.website ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    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

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  • Steelpan@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

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

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  • Lexam@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Oh it’s me. Hi, how’s it going?

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