RE: How do you respond to this statement?
July 6, 2013 at 3:43 pm
(This post was last modified: July 6, 2013 at 3:47 pm by Whateverist.)
(July 6, 2013 at 3:25 pm)Rahul Wrote:(July 6, 2013 at 3:21 pm)whateverist Wrote: Do you know the secret handshake?
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No.
No... I don't.
Well, since idle curiosity is a terrible thing to waste, I'll tell you anyway. (Mum's the word though.)
Basically I just think what we take ourselves to be is wrong headed. I think our conscious minds play a subsidiary role in who we really are. We -our conscious minds- are an evolutionary adaption which makes us capable of stepping back and really questioning the motives and intentions of others. Add language and this conscious mind convinces itself it owns the joint. In fact we are more, and the more that we are in some respects is "other" to our conscious minds. The other within is a psychological fact that is not up to my conscious opinion nor my conscious assessment of what it would be best for me to believe. That creates the possibility of such unfortunate outcomes as estrangement from self and, more trivially, Freudian slips. But such a schema also makes coherent such ideas as integration and fulfillment. I'm fine with calling this aspect of myself "soul" even though I don't think it is anything other than something my brain is doing and thus is every bit as mortal as my body. Weird, huh?
