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Real me. Right. Which one is that? 2 Year old me? 10 Year old me? Current age me? Me yesterday? Me today? The me I experience phenomenologically or the me other
by RikNieu 8y ago
Real me. Right. Which one is that? 2 Year old me? 10 Year old me? Current age me? Me yesterday? Me today? The me I experience phenomenologically or the me other people perceive, interpret and interact with? The different me's others perceive individually?
Will the real me please stand up.
- madacoo 8y agoWould it be reasonable to define the real me as simply the perpetually mutating sum of all those things?
- drjesusphd 8y agoIn the play "No Exit", Sartre (through one of the characters) says "You are your life. And nothing else." It stands to reason that the "real you" never gets fully realized until you die.
- RikNieu 8y agoI dunno, would it be reasonable to call a cloud that temporarily looks like Chewbacca Chewbacca? I suppose it would make sense in that particular moment in time, and in that particular context, but it's not an image of Chewbacca is it? Not really. It's just a conveniet way of refering to phenomena... happening and being perceived a certain way. In a similar way, I'd say yes, we are the "real us" at any point in time, but only in the sense that it makes convient sense in that particular moment, and only as a device to point at a set of particular processes/things happening.
- helloindia 8y agoJust like asking which is the real river?
- undershirt 8y ago"How am I not myself?" Jude Law repeats this in "I Heart Huckabees" as he slowly slips into existential crisis.
- kowdermeister 8y agoOr the future me. The one we are marching towards but never quite reach.