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sidelined
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Message 3 of 18 (297076)
03-21-2006 12:53 PM
Reply to: Message 1 by riVeRraT
03-21-2006 9:04 AM


riVeRrat
My question is, what do you attribute your feeling of self to?
The impression of a self floating in the skull as though it were a seperate entity is an illusion produced by the activity of the brain in concert with a lack of neural feedback to allow the brain to sense itself.
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Message 12 of 18 (297187)
03-22-2006 1:39 AM
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03-21-2006 10:57 PM


riVeRrat
So would you categorize it as objective? Since you seem to have an objective explanation for it?
Well, the word subjective is used by humans as a means of labeling the category of experience that comes from the activity of the personal mind so it is subjective in that sense, however ,the brain is wrongly assigning the impression of this activity as belonging to an entity existing seperate from the body.
This is perfectly consonant with the notion that the world as a material structure is capable of producing these impressions from strictly physical phenomena. It is therefore also an objective effect that we subjectively interpret.I hope this does more to clarify than confuse.

Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.
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