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The boundary at which the self ends and the environment begets another philsophical point that Alan Watts spoke at length about, essentially stating there is no
by FullMtlAlcoholc 9y ago
The boundary at which the self ends and the environment begets another philsophical point that Alan Watts spoke at length about, essentially stating there is no dividing line, it's all a spectrum upon which we place arbitrary boundaries because of our need to put things in boxes and that the concept of self that we create of ourselves is a complete fiction.
Also, is the autonomic nervous system or the unconscious and nonconscious considered part of the self?
- naasking 9y agoAll good questions, but none of these facts necessarily entail that there is no self, they simply change what we could possibly mean by the "self". For instance, cars and jobs don't actually exist at the level of particles and fields, and yet we can say with certainty that I have a car that I drive to my job almost every day. These terms have sensible and precise meanings, even if we don't yet know their precise meanings.