Michele Pasin / Quotes

We are the same because we believe it

‘Physically we’re not the same, psychologically we’re not the same, genetically we’re the same but that doesn’t mean anything really; we may have certain patterns of brain organisation that predispose us temperamentally in certain ways, so we’re the same in that sense but then lots of other people probably have the same organisational patterns, so every which way you look at it we’re not really the same. What makes us the same is that we believe we’re the same.’

Saved 23 April 2015

#personal-identity #beliefs #self #changes

Ego loss in the bath

Ego loss crept upon me without my even noticing. Several times, half-submerged amid mounds of foam sparkling like a Christmas tree, I realized I had…

The Acid Diaries (Christopher Gray) #ego #personal-identity #psychedelics #self

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

Is my body essential to my identity

But is this body really essential to my identity? It seems at least possible to imagine that I might, like Gregor Samsa in the story by Kafka, wake up in a…

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

Life review and dissociation from the self

Somehow the acid had catalyzed a process that continued without further chemical action. Gradually this ongoing life-review began to bring about an increasing…

The Acid Diaries (Christopher Gray) #self #psychedelics #objectivity #personal-identity

Il nemico è anche dentro di noi

Sta emergendo un fatto inatteso. Una vera sorpresa, non gradita: che il nemico non somiglia a quel che avevamo in mente e non è esattamente quello che…

Adesso basta (Simone Perotti) #changes #self #capitalism

Il vero cambiamento parte da noi stessi

Qui però parliamo di un altro cambiamento, e ho usato questi esempi solo per specificarlo. Il vero cambiamento, quello che interessa il downshifting, è fatto…

Adesso basta (Simone Perotti) #changes #Italy #religion #self