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I believe depersonalization is distinct from ego death, where ego death is the dissolution of boundaries between self/non-self but an observer exists and sensa
by shoes_for_thee 6y ago
I believe depersonalization is distinct from ego death,
where ego death is the dissolution of boundaries between self/non-self but an observer exists and sensations are experienced (but by whom?)
And depersonalization is the inability to identify sensations as belonging to the observer: "Stuff is happening 'out there'", like watching a movie.
I could be wrong. This is just my understanding.
- dqpb 6y agoMy take is that Karl Friston's description of depersonalization is a technical description of the partition that occurs in the neural communication graph, along with some hints of the qualitative experience of that partition. Ego-death on the other hand is a name that the community of connoisseurs have given to a common qualitative experience, which does not attempt to explain the underlying physical process that causes it.