[FRIAM] What makes you who you are?

[Frank Wimberly]

Nick,

I experience the world very differently from you.  I have been aware of
self observation as a source of inference about oneself ever since I was s
student of Bem in the late sixties.  I still experience hunger which leads
me to eat.  I do not infer that I'm hungry by observing that I am preparing
to eat.  As you and I have discussed many times.

Frank
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On Wed, Apr 28, 2021, 10:46 AM <thompnickson2 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Jochen,
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> The idea that there is a “you” is an outsider’s view which you adopt as an
> “I”.  You know that your “I” is a confusion, a collage.  I have given up on
> “the will” altogether except as an expression of what my “you” is about to
> do.  Am I going to bend down and pick up my socks.  Let’s see, am I leaning
> that way.  Does my hand go out to brace me on the sink.  Why Gosh!  I guess
> I am.
>
>
>
> Nick Thompson
>
> ThompNickSon2 at gmail.com
>
> https://wordpress.clarku.edu/nthompson/
>
>
>
> *From:* Friam <friam-bounces at redfish.com> *On Behalf Of *Jochen Fromm
> *Sent:* Wednesday, April 28, 2021 12:36 AM
> *To:* The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group <
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> *Subject:* [FRIAM] What makes you who you are?
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>
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> I am not sure that I exist, actually. I am all the writers that I have
> read, all the people that I have met, all the women that I have loved; all
> the cities I have visited.
> ~ Jorge Luis Borges
>
> I stumbled upon this Borges quote today in a social media post from
> Jessica Flack and started to wonder if one could say that each of us is a
> small creative masterpiece since building up a personality is a creative
> process. Our personality is created from all the people we have met, all
> the lessons we have been taught, all the words and ideas we have heard from
> others. From all these impressions we have selected bits and pieces of
> behavior that work for us. Just as our subjective experience is formed by
> the slice of the world we have experienced, our individual personality is
> formed by the particular actions we repeatedly do. Therefore the unique
> path which we choose to walk in this world is forming our personality just
> as much as the unique slice of the world which we perceive is molding our
> subjective experience. Would you agree?
>
>
> https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/articles/202004/what-makes-you-who-you-are
>
> -J.
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