Individualism, Individuation, & Selfhood

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Category:

Education

Tags:

• Buber
• Bakhtin
• Royce
• Dialogism
• Consciousness
• Self
• Personhood
• individualism
• individual
• society

[trisky1234]

Hey man, not only are we social through and through, our social behavior is just another form of the tendency of information to structure itself into ever more complex forms. This is something science seems to be finally tilting towards in the last few years, stepping away from the materialist physics based determinism.

[Professoranton]

@trisky1234 I hope that you are right about this.

[zarkoff45]

Are you not seeing yourself, to some degree, how others see you when you look at your own youtube videos? Has that deconstructed some element of your selfhood?

[Professoranton]

I don't think so. You never ever really know how others see you.

Even in physical terms: if you and another person are standing before a mirror, you can compare the other's face to their reflection in the mirror, but you see only your reflection and can't really compare.

[anonforuz]

everything professor Anton says leaves me drooling.

and if im not drooling I feel i should be. 6:25 the mindfuck begins

[MahatmaClarity]

Hahaha.. this was an onslaught. Way to freestyle!

[electricbobbybear]

Gestalt theory of perceptionMy first association was to how memory may be stored. Consider how time flies when consciousness is put under anesthetic. Common experience is that extension of time disappears altogether. One may be under for hours, but experience is something like I blinking one's eyes, and then woke up with the procedure done. Even when months have passed.

Also "external localization of a percept" in terms of "what is me/not me?"

[BlueMintRed]

I am super interested in this. Ive been drappling with "Social Anxiety Disorder" since I was in 8th grade, where do you think this stems from. I somewhat understand what you mean because I NEVER feel like I am alone. And I have always attempted to see things through others eyes, even though this is not something I conciously do, just soething Im aware of. Also where I think I have the trouble is, the ambiguity of language.

[ezemdi]

I feel like a new man! haha

[f1ghtclub2k3]

if there is this thing I call me and it is being in the world and of it...but always changing...why not call it becoming even from moment to moment...this is like close to psychosis...in that one stops trying to control the environment and starts being controlled by it and shaped totally by it...

[NeoChalcedonian]

Phrases that Professor Anton has added to my vocabulary forever:

1) Authoritative Disambiguation

and now!

2) "The Contradiction Stick"

[briano8713]

I guess a similar argument might run "there is no such thing as a forest, only trees."

[theteamextremefan]

So let me get this straight. All of existing thought is a hierarchy of an interaction of social experience,, My question must be when was it's begging and to what end is our understanding of ourselves.

[ConorRyan22]

Go read the Bhagavad-gītā and don't waste your time.