A Think-along Blog Condensing Perceptions into Ideas which Challenge Your Sense of the Ordinary.... Please feel free to comment/criticize as I appreciate and utilize feedback highly. Four Common Topics Discussed: -Human Psychological/Cultural Evolution -Education and Liberty -Proper place/value of recreational drug use in society -Facts as/are Values and vice versa Two Main Themes: -Irony -Paradox
Wednesday, December 15, 2010
Who am I?
A name, interests, occupation, place of residence. Sounds like that answer is best suited for someone who wants to bill another.
On one level you are a body. But its important to mention that you, through the cell cycle, develop a new body every few years. So what was you as a body ten years ago, is now gone.
The presence you feel inside of you, which perceives and acts. The so called, little person in the head. If this is your answer, its is wrong because there is a fallacy. The little man has the problem of infinite regress. Asking who is in the little man’s head, forever. It leads us nowhere.
What’s left for us to identify ourselves?
The individual cells in our body make up our “whole” structure.
These cells are themselves made up of individual parts.
Ultimately leading to dna and genes.
To proteins and amino acids.
To atoms.
To neutrons.
To quarks and so on… another infinite regress.
Another possible identity is our environment. This answer is favorable because it most describes our behavior and form. We are made to fit as organisms into our environment. The world nourishes us with food and air, things we just so happen to need. If we identify ourselves with the environment, and look at it as it were an extension of us, everyone would be “green”. not because of any fad or eco-guilt, but because it would be as natural as wiping their own ass.
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
No comments:
Post a Comment