What Does it Mean to be You?

Julian Baggini sets out to answer one of the most fundamental of philosophical questions -- what is the self?

Listen to the full audio: thersa.org/events/audio-and-past-events/2011/what-does-it-mean-to-be-you

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[kokopelli314]

The self isn't our most important part. It just thinks that it is.

[karenmelissa002]

This is actually very comforting. There is no such thing as who you are. At any given moment you can portray the label that is given to attributes(such as strong, hardworking) despite any track record. Humans are extremely inconsistent, and as factual as that is, it's very humbling.

[mattyisagod]

Julian is a good writer and a talented philosopher but not really a public speaker. He doesn't emote very well and seems to move through the words too quickly.

[dt28469]

This is something I've been contemplating for a while. Finally a neat video explaining all that of which I've failed to form into words myself. This is what it means to be one with everything. Your nothing more than a form from this universe; a natural phenomenon, a collection of small events. 'What is one's self?' is but an irrelevant question. The question itself, is purely semantics.

[sabbalo]

what makes a person is the experiences that we go through, so if i would be born again i would be a completely different person, and i dont want that.

[CaramelBarz]

@movealongBear Incertophobia

[movealongBear]

what's the phobia term for the fear of vagueness? didn't quite catch it.

[S2Cents]

I just read a review by Julian Baggini in which he claims the author of a book on the history of philosophy did not include phenomenology. No Husserl or Heidegger, etc. Don't mind if you don't subscribe to that school

BUT

come the fuck on.

Baggini has the nerve to say the author did an admirable job of including ALL canonical philosophers.

I'd hoped we'd made progress past this parochial BULLSHIT

[myTHself]

especially liked the question session.. the monk-ism critique, and the finding your self to become less self-ish paradox...

i once had an unproven theory that yoga turned my friends boring - in gaining the ability to fold themselves up their bums physically they inevitably began disappearing up their own bums mentally :0)... ... ...

[dirtunit]

@shephronqpan your ideas intrigue me and i wish to subscribe to your newsletter

[shephronqpan]

desires, memories... we dont have it and knowledge either as much as consciousness project it. simulacrum has it. fabric of reality has memories. call it avatar, ego, mental projection if you will. take DMT. stop talking rubbish. formulate meta language formulas in first place. too much wording. lack consistency and definitions. Tibetan people make difference between SEM and RIGPA (MIND).Pribruim and others... look up Holographic Universe by Michael Talbot.

[pglink]

Chemical structure of water FAIL at 6:09