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Shaun Gallagher
Shaun Gallagher • Phenomenology (Palgrave Philosophy Today)
For me, it became crucial to notice what is in fact "illusory" about the self. It's not an illusion in the sense of being a completely useless, even malignant, deception. It's a complex of narratives, judgments, and strategies that developed to help me maintain some relatively reliable social-emotional standing. It served, and serves, a purpose.
Waking Up - A New Operating System for Your Mind
In my proposal consciousness is an enriched state of mind. The enrichment consists in inserting additional elements of mind within the ongoing mind process. These additional mind elements are largely cut from the same cloth as the rest of the mind—they are imagetic—but thanks to their contents they announce firmly that all the mental contents to wh
... See moreAntonio Damasio • Feeling & Knowing
despite believing myself to be an integrated self, I talk to myself as if I am composed of several ‘people’.
Andrew Spira • The Invention of the Self
The Experience Machine: Cognitive Philosopher Andy Clark on the Power of Expectation and How the Mind Renders Reality
Maria Popovathemarginalian.orgIf, on the other hand, you believe that we make sense of the world, if we are, from a bunch of different points of view, applying some kind of sense to the world, then you don't privilege one top level of sense-making over the other. What you do instead is you try to find ways that the individual sense-making can roll up to something which is of va... See more
Clay Shirky • Ontology is Overrated: Categories, Links, and Tags
The “you” in question is the assemblage of self-related prior beliefs, values, goals, memories, and perceptual best guesses that collectively make up the experience of being you.