@Dexter78,
Dexter78,
With this understanding when we consider the concept of personal identity I think it can be nothing but a swirl of activities,of interelated processes,and utterly impersonal.Sounds like an oxy moron does not,an impersonal identity.This impersonal identity,or as I stated earlier,this highly functional illusion, has to be the biological function of a multicellular community.I would suspect that even a singular cell has a sense of its own being,at least initially,before it gives its sense of self up, to be part of one organic community.
If we use the human social community to try and draw analogies between it and our own identity,what if anything can we conclude,does a social communtiy have identity outside the existence and/or consciousness of its component parts.Society is something we tend to believe we are part of.The some total of our cooperations [relatedness]is our sense of community. With the physcial world I don't think it can be said that a community is aware of an identity which is not sumed up as a collective of its individuals.
I recall a bit of wisdom which stated,that there is no such thing as large or small but only by comparison.This comparison is also necessary I think in drawing or coming to the conclusion of identity,it must be relative,for only that which is relative can exist,even if it is as a simply impression, or as an illusion.So,would it be to much of a stretch of the imagination to assume the objects which constitute the form of our impressions,by means of relational comparisons/associations to be,the process of identity formation.I am going back to my room now.
"The mind is a secondary organ in serves to the body." The Late Joseph
Campbell
All fixed set patterns are incapable of adaptability or pliability. The
truth is outside of all fixed patterns.
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