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Madam Myriad's avatar

I have never wrestled with continuity of the self because I always thought of my self as a perspective. ā€œIā€ am the unavoidable result of experiencing my unique collection of sensory inputs, chemical interactions, absorbed information/symbols, and memories of all the above: an inescapable consequence of how my biology interacts with reality.

So, thank you for sharing your perspective in such detailed free-flow. It is appreciated.

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Noah Stephenson's avatar

Hoo boy, you have officially articulated a similar reason why I increasingly don’t want to write in a public facing way anymore; because it takes a certain expected confidence in what I’m writing as ā€œtrue.ā€ Guess I gotta just be okay with the fact I’ll probably have changed my mind or clarified some things I once wrote, by the time it’s been posted for, like, a week? If that?🤣

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Stephen from Trenchant Edges's avatar

Yeah, it's messy.

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Madam Myriad's avatar

Real is often messy. Messy can be good.

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