Michele Pasin / Quotes

Non posti nuovi, ma occhi nuovi

«Per un vero viaggio di scoperta non occorrono posti nuovi, ma occhi nuovi», scriveva Marcel Proust. E credo avesse ragione. Chi fugge è invece convinto del contrario, e cioè che sta male dove sta per motivi esterni, ma che basti cambiare orizzonte premendo un tasto sul telecomando per poter vivere una vita nuova e felice, spazzando via la vecchia (causa di tanti guai) in un soffio.

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#changes #self #illusion #place

A very persistent illusion

If the unified self is an illusion, it is a very persistent one.

The Ego Trick (baggini, Julian) #self #illusion #unity

Dennett: the self as user illusion

The philosopher Daniel Dennett takes a similar line, calling the perception of a unitary controlling mind a ‘veridical illusion’. ‘It’s an illusion in the…

The Ego Trick (baggini, Julian) #illusion #self #computer #interface

Hofstadter's marble in the envelopes

example of this given by Douglas Hofstadter, another writer who is keen to talk of illusions, describing the self as ‘a mirage that perceived itself, and of…

The Ego Trick (baggini, Julian) #self #illusion #metaphor

Hume finds no experience of the self

Hume made devastating criticisms of the Cartesian account of the self and personal identity. There is no experience of the self, according to Hume; and the…

Mind: A Brief Introduction (John R. Searle) #self #personal-identity #illusion

Illusory is only the idea of an unchanging self

the most coherent readings of its teachings on not-self are indeed remarkably congruent with more recent bundle theories. The self is not an illusion. What is…

The Ego Trick (baggini, Julian) #Buddhism #bundle-theory #illusion #self

Mere constructs versus real constructions

idea of the self as a construction is one that many want to resist, because it seems to imply that it is not real. But of course constructions can be…

The Ego Trick (baggini, Julian) #self #reality #illusion #distinction