Re: <documenta X><blast> hot summer night (was home)
Morgan Garwood (mgarwood@inch.com)
Wed, 20 Aug 1997 13:00:21 -0400
He speaks to the me of twenty years ago when I wished I had
>the ability to say what I wanted to say. I now have more skill but less to
>say.
one learns through experience to conserve one's energy, too. I will lie in
bed at times and stare up at the ceiling, wondering how the *me-ness* that
is my sense of me got connected to the body that I am in, with the life
story I have. If a different sperm had uploaded its files into that
particular egg, would this "me-ness" have happened, or would there be a
physical body in the world that sort of resembled me but had its own
"me-ness" but would know nothing of my me-ness.
The Buddhists may be correct in their assertion that the sense of self
is an illusion created by the functioning of the system. This produces
strange thought loops; such as "all the indicators are that this is me",
but what if this is only the collective chant of my neural chorus, and "I"
am sort of a stable state caused by a process Gerald Edelman calls
*re-entry mapping*...
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