wildcat2030:

As you wake up each morning, hazy and disoriented, you gradually become aware of the rustling of the sheets, sense their texture and squint at the light. One aspect of your self has reassembled: the first-person observer of reality, inhabiting a human body.

As wakefulness grows, so does your sense of having a past, a personality and motivations. Your self is complete, as both witness of the world and bearer of your consciousness and identity. You.

This intuitive sense of self is an effortless and fundamental human experience. But it is nothing more than an elaborate illusion. Under scrutiny, many common-sense beliefs about selfhood begin to unravel. Some thinkers even go as far as claiming that there is no such thing as the self. (via The great illusion of the self - New Scientist)

There’s a fundamental problem with the claim that there is no self. It assumes that the subjective viewpoint doesn’t exist objectively.

The distinction must be made for the phenomenal self and the self-reported components of each individual self. Self is both a subjective experience and a construct. Whether or not the constructed self represents reality well or not says nothing of the phenomenal experience of self.

In other words, just because a person thinks all manner of incorrect things about themselves, doesn’t mean that their subjective experience of themselves isn’t how they think it is. A person can think they’re “a very deep person” and regardless of evidence to the contrary, they experience themselves as if they were their idea of “a very deep person.”

The takeaway lesson from all this is that our subjective self allows us to adapt until our objective self can catch up. If you start believing you’re a hard worker, then begin to work hard (because you’re a hard worker), you may eventually be someone that an objective observer would describe as “hard working.”

Because the world revolves around you.

naked-glass:

The Stoic Club (later becoming The Lazy Cowpoke Stop’n Go) is a club located in Summers from EarthBound. It is a private club whose members stare at a rock believed to be magical and philosophize. Members eat the magic cake provided by the woman in the pink dress near the entrance of the club.

“I’ve finally awakened the inner me, the true self. The patrons of this club are able to stare into their own soul hard enough to burn a hole in their psyche. I’m now comfortable enough to stare at the real me, the true self, and burn the impression into my super-ego.”

“Didactically speaking, seminal evidence seems to explicate the fact that your repudiation of entropy supports my theory of space-time synthesis. Of this, I am irrefutably confident.”

“You guys can’t envision the final collapse of capitalism?”

“The show? It’s already started. Everyone stares at the stone on stage and philosopizes….Doesn’t it sound stupid?”

Mono-ha, you must love them.

This game belongs in the Louvre. It is a masterpiece.

Tyler: You were looking for a way to change your life. You could not do this on your own.

…And yet?

thisisnotpsychology:

The biopsychosocial approach to development

from David G. Myers: Psychology

Quote from Carl Gustav Jung:

“Loneliness does not come from having no people about one, but from being unable to communicate the things that seem important to oneself, or from holding certain views which others find inadmissible. As a child I felt myself to be alone, and I am still, because I know things and must hint at things which others apparently know nothing of, and for the most part do not want to know.”