Re: People only have the luxury of expressing such views when they haven't suffered from mental illness. Archived Message
Posted by johnlilburne on April 24, 2019, 10:18 pm, in reply to "People only have the luxury of expressing such views when they haven't suffered from mental illness."
I was really talking about the problematic nature of trying to define the boundaries of individual organisms from an objective scientific point of view. You are talking about the nature of subjective awareness, the sense from the inside of being an individual self separate from the rest of the world. This is probably only a problem for humans, who are not only conscious or aware of themselves and the world but are aware of their own awareness, conscious of their own consciousness. You say that you feel you have lost your sense of self, your identity as an individual, that it has become nebulous and fragmented. I can well understand, then, why you would want to defend the idea of the individual as a discrete entity with precise boundaries and would want to anchor that sense to a set of core values that you can rely on. I appreciate what you are saying and hope that you will post here more often.
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