Michele Pasin / Quotes

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 sense of dissociation from the self I had so blindly identified with. My life seemed to become ever more objective, something “out there” in the world. Something no longer subjective . . . even, in a sense, no longer “mine” at all. Needless to say, this happened almost imperceptibly, over a period of months; it was just that I first began to notice it at this time.

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#self #psychedelics #objectivity #personal-identity

Dissolving the divide between subjective and objective

But the divide between subjective and objective could also turn out to be an illusion of our own creation. This division goes to the core of our scientific…

Beyond Zero and One (Andrew Smart) #materialism #consciousness #psychedelics #objectivity

Belief in the enduring self as magical thinking

We may go through major transformations, not just brain injuries, but what psychologists call ‘emotional insult’, such as the break-up of relationships or a…

The Ego Trick (baggini, Julian) #self #beliefs #personal-identity

Bundles tied tighter and looser

If that’s right, then virtually every theory of self and personal identity has inevitably gone wrong, because they have sought a description of selves which…

The Ego Trick (baggini, Julian) #bundle-theory #self #personal-identity

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

I am my baggage

it seems to me that a consistent set of personality traits is not a person. Janet’s metaphors seem to get it exactly wrong. I am my baggage. I am the layers…

The Ego Trick (baggini, Julian) #self #experience #memory #personal-identity

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