Identity
by Sixian and · updated 1mo ago
Identity
- “In most of our human relationships, we spend much of our time reassuring one another that our costumes of identity are on straight.”
― ram dassfrom Tweet by Poetic Outlaws
rob hardy added 6mo ago
The Self Delusion: The New Neuroscience of How We Invent--And Reinvent--Our Identities a book by Gregory Berns
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Laura Pike Seeley added 2y ago
- the sum total of all of a person’s nodal points could be some kind of proxy for a personal identity. At the very least, it’s an indication of an individual perspective. Since writing this essay, I’ve thought a lot about this kind of personal intuition towards things: the radar that any person has that leads them to different points in their life.
from Here for the Wrong Reasons
gabriel added 6mo ago
Severin Matusek added 2y ago
Stuart Evans added 2y ago
Sixian added 2y ago
- Books you read are sending you input. Your friends modeling behaviors for you. Newspapers. Tools. People you follow on Twitter. The architecture of a Gothic church beaming serenity into you—that is input too.
At the same time, you are also sending output to other nodes. Now, I am sending these ideas into my pocket notebook, which will send them to m... See morefrom First We Shape Our Social Graph; Then It Shapes Us by Henrik Karlsson
Laura Pike Seeley added 1mo ago
gabriel added 6mo ago
A thing in the world is not innately a “nodal point” just waiting for you to encounter it, your recognition and love and attention for the thing is what makes it a “nodal point.”
Your radar is you. Not the things you focus on, but the orientation, the internal ruleset, your magnetism towards things, the natural intuition that you’ve had your whole life. The “desire lines” are you.
Eyeo 2016 – Sara Hendren
Tom Critchlow added 2y ago
Keely Adler added 2y ago
