RE: The Two Selves.
May 5, 2016 at 10:07 am
(This post was last modified: May 5, 2016 at 10:13 am by Edwardo Piet.)
No definable self at all:
How many grains of sand to make a pile?
We're a bunch of multiple drafts with no clearly drawn line. No real definable self.
But it helps to see the split in the two different aspects to our personality, the part of us that remembers and anticipates memories, and the part of us that experiences the here and now.
It's like how ultimately the mind is physical. There is no real split between "physical" and "mental", monism is true, dualism is false.
But having the word "mental" to contrast with "physical" is still helpful regardless of this.
This is why I love spotting the equivocation fallacy and why reading a dictionary thesaurus combo every day for 8 months helped me so much.
When we get different senses of the same words or concepts mixed up it causes a lot of unnecessary confusion. It's awesome to spot it.
Hammy
How many grains of sand to make a pile?
We're a bunch of multiple drafts with no clearly drawn line. No real definable self.
But it helps to see the split in the two different aspects to our personality, the part of us that remembers and anticipates memories, and the part of us that experiences the here and now.
It's like how ultimately the mind is physical. There is no real split between "physical" and "mental", monism is true, dualism is false.
But having the word "mental" to contrast with "physical" is still helpful regardless of this.
This is why I love spotting the equivocation fallacy and why reading a dictionary thesaurus combo every day for 8 months helped me so much.
When we get different senses of the same words or concepts mixed up it causes a lot of unnecessary confusion. It's awesome to spot it.
Hammy
