EDIT: Moved to OT because I accidentally started this thread in the wrong forum.
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I was thinking, I don't really believe the "I" exists. I mean not as a constant thing anyway.
Its used obviously in general conversation (I've said it already in this topic as you can see), but what I mean is: when we say "I" did this. Or "I" did that. Which part of us are we talking about? What's the I?
Part of you might feel one thing, and part another. You think one thing and basically instantly think another, new thoughts are being thought all the time. Which one is the "I"??
Mustn't the "I" a second ago be different from the I afterwards? People change, cells rebuild.
Talking of cells, we are made of trillions of cells aren't we? So I'm thinking, which cell is the 'lead cell', i.e - which is the "I"?
I'd think one in the brain lol! But surely it would be the combination of several cells? Or all the brain cells? Etc, etc.
So its like a flowing river I think not solid. The "I" always changes, or there are several Is. The very moment you say "I" you are not the same "I" because you are thinking a different thought, feeling a different feeling, I think?
I am not the same as I was yesterday. If only because I've learnt things since then, however insignificant.
So I don't think in a serious literal sense the "I" exists. And I think sometimes "the I" can be confused with a soul when it is only meant in a general sense so you can actually just function in a converstaion.
Thoughts? I'm wondering, when we say "I" what part of us are we talking about? The I changes, yet we act like its a constant thing. We relate ourselves to our past and things we've done even when we've moved on. Even when we're not who we were - supposedly because the memories of the past are still there so it feels like part of our "I" now. Whatever "the I" is exactly. If you knot what I mean...?
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I was thinking, I don't really believe the "I" exists. I mean not as a constant thing anyway.
Its used obviously in general conversation (I've said it already in this topic as you can see), but what I mean is: when we say "I" did this. Or "I" did that. Which part of us are we talking about? What's the I?
Part of you might feel one thing, and part another. You think one thing and basically instantly think another, new thoughts are being thought all the time. Which one is the "I"??
Mustn't the "I" a second ago be different from the I afterwards? People change, cells rebuild.
Talking of cells, we are made of trillions of cells aren't we? So I'm thinking, which cell is the 'lead cell', i.e - which is the "I"?
I'd think one in the brain lol! But surely it would be the combination of several cells? Or all the brain cells? Etc, etc.
So its like a flowing river I think not solid. The "I" always changes, or there are several Is. The very moment you say "I" you are not the same "I" because you are thinking a different thought, feeling a different feeling, I think?
I am not the same as I was yesterday. If only because I've learnt things since then, however insignificant.
So I don't think in a serious literal sense the "I" exists. And I think sometimes "the I" can be confused with a soul when it is only meant in a general sense so you can actually just function in a converstaion.
Thoughts? I'm wondering, when we say "I" what part of us are we talking about? The I changes, yet we act like its a constant thing. We relate ourselves to our past and things we've done even when we've moved on. Even when we're not who we were - supposedly because the memories of the past are still there so it feels like part of our "I" now. Whatever "the I" is exactly. If you knot what I mean...?
