[FRIAM] /Topic Latent in: Latent Topics was: enough sleep?

[Nick Thompson]

Wait, Marcus, wait!  Hang on, there!  Didn't you just assert an identity? 

Nick 

Nicholas S. Thompson
Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Biology
Clark University
http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/


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From: Friam [mailto:friam-bounces at redfish.com] On Behalf Of u?l? ?
Sent: Thursday, April 11, 2019 12:14 PM
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Subject: Re: [FRIAM] /Topic Latent in: Latent Topics was: enough sleep?

On 4/11/19 10:08 AM, Marcus Daniels wrote:
> What I'm pitching here is not to extend identity, but to annihilate it.  

Can we, though? In the conversation about playing roles instead of simply changing topics of conversation, there seemed to be quite a bit of push back in the sense of "authenticity".  I may not be remembering well.  But my argument for adopting roles was *in order to* allow for episodic people like me to avoid the pressure by others to "have an identity" or identify with some group or other. My lack of a coherent identity feels innate or learned at an early age.  I think I do a fair job of seeming normal despite my lack ... mostly through attempts at consistency and efficiency. But I have to fight being offended when someone "identifies" (pigeonholes) me.

If *I* can't annihilate my identity, I can't help but wonder who can?  Buddha?

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