to grok Self

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to grok Self

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Self is the story you tell yourself about how you fit into the world and society. The world is the physical/material aspects of your experience and society is everything to do with minds, including your own priorities and how you think about the minds of other creatures.

We are an embodied perspective on the universe, which is the correlation of our internal and external senses. For some people, those things do not correlate, they merely overlap. Body Dysmorphia is when your sense of self does not correlate sufficiently with your sense of embodiment. Likewise there are dissociative disorders such as phantom limb syndrome that work in the other direction.

That embodiment is the substrate of Self, but Self is malleable both by external circumstance (Phineas Gage) or by internal effort.

Personality and character are overlays to the self which are more or less persistent or expressed in various circumstances. Like consciousness, there is not yet a consensus understanding of either.
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