The Illusion of the Self

[Philosophy Now]

Sam Woolfe says that we’re deluding our selves.

https://philosophynow.org/issues/97/The ... f_the_Self

[jackles]

Yep. I go along with that and its nicely put.identity is taken from the event by the observers brain. The origonal identity of the observer is born in him or her its a feeling of life put there by nature before birth. Its the real you.

[Ginkgo]

Yep. I go along with that and its nicely put.identity is taken from the event by the observers brain. The origonal identity of the observer is born in him or her its a feeling of life put there by nature before birth. Its the real you.

That would be an example of "there is a self."

[jackles]

Think the point here ginkgo is there is a common self which is not the self the brain constructs from its interaction with the event.example I am austrailian(im not). Austrailian is and event identity put there by the brain. Real identity is the feel you have about your self. But your born self is nothing and nothing is your real id.not something as in Australian. The exact same idea applies with respect to man and woman. The same nothing self is the true id of both man and woman at birth.