How do you answer the question, "who am I?"
Bernee 51 has raised this question a few times. I believe that it is a difficult but fundamentally important question. What does it mean? Who am I? How do you approach this?
How do you answer the question, "who am I?"
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How do you answer the question, "who am I?"
Post #1Examine everything carefully; hold fast to that which is good.
First Epistle to the Church of the Thessalonians
The truth will make you free.
Gospel of John
First Epistle to the Church of the Thessalonians
The truth will make you free.
Gospel of John
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There is no hard problem; that's the problem.QED wrote:Darn it, here I am starting to suffer burn-out over the Hard problem of consciousness and then I get distracted by a subsidiary question like this.
Given that I appear to myself to exist and have an array of preferences, plans and a past history shaped in part by these things -- it seems to me that I am an intentional agent who's behaviour could be reasonably well predicted by others on the basis of this information.
Allow me to recommend Consciousness Explained by Daniel Dennett.
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