We need a self because the complexity of the chemical processes that make up our individual humanities exceeds the processing power of our brains.
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Our sense of self is a kind of construct. It is in some ways like a novel, and it's like a fabric of fictions that we patch together from memory.
Having a self, even a simple self, allows you to look into the world and put a mark over what is more important and less important. It's a way of classifying the world in terms of your own needs.
People often say that this or that person has not yet found himself. But the self is not something one finds, it is something one creates.
Our self image, strongly held, essentially determines what we become.
To what extent do we self-construct, do we self-invent? How do we self-identify, and how mutable is that identity? Like, what if one could be anyone at any time? Well, my characters, like the ones in my shows, allow me to play with the spaces between those questions.
True self is non-self, the awareness that the self is made only of non-self elements. There's no separation between self and other, and everything is interconnected.
The True Self is not our creation, but God's. It is the self we are in our depths. It is our capacity for divinity and transcendence.
Science, literature, and common sense tell us that the self is a fickle thing, subject to revision in real time, and that the chasm that exists between any two people exists inside each and every one of us.
People need to know that they have all the tools within themselves. Self-awareness, which means awareness of their body, awareness of their mental space, awareness of their relationships - not only with each other, but with life and the ecosystem.
The intelligence of the lower forms of animal life, like a great deal of human intelligence, does not involve a self.
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