The Ego Trick (baggini, Julian) / quote 106 of 254

Mind is embodied and socially situated

any respectable theory will completely agree that mind is what it is because of how it is embodied and socially situated. To say that the social self matters to self-image therefore doesn’t undermine the idea we keep coming back to: our identity is essentially rooted in a psychological sense of self.

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