RE: There is no "I" in "You"
May 19, 2016 at 1:34 pm
(This post was last modified: May 19, 2016 at 1:36 pm by quip.)
(May 19, 2016 at 1:28 pm)robvalue Wrote: Then there's the question of whether we are "the same person" from one moment to the next. Physically we are not, which is going to alter us mentally as well. It's just kind of convenient to string it all together and call it "a person's experiences".
This subject seems to have taken on an ironic Buddhist flavor.
(May 19, 2016 at 1:32 pm)Alasdair Ham Wrote: The experiences are in no way separate from the experiencer. We don't exactly live inside our own phenomenological experience... We ARE our phenomenological experience.
Careful....you're treading dangerously close to that metaphysical precipice!