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What is self-awareness?
- Thread starter Gambit
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So it is pretty much the same thing as having a sense of self?
Yes.
Gambit
Well-Known Member
Is the "me" the subject or the object?
Traditionally, the subject, but it can also to some extent, or in some sense, appear as the object of itself.
Gambit
Well-Known Member
What about the "not-me?"
psychoslice
Veteran Member
My way of seeing self awareness is when we experience that which is beyond the mind, but experienced through the mind. We are not in truth just the psychosomatic apparatus, we are the pure Source of there is, or Consciousness, this is the true SELF.
Hmm, isn't it then to some extent a balance act between perception and control?
Twilight Hue
Twilight, not bright nor dark, good nor bad.
Enabled introspection.
Timothy Bryce
Active Member
A privilege.
Gambit
Well-Known Member
Action personified.
Please elaborate.
YmirGF
Bodhisattva in Recovery
We are an energy "life form" whose existence is self-evident. Self-awareness is an attribute of consciousness in relation to a given environment.
Rick O'Shez
Irishman bouncing off walls
Being aware of your habits, character traits and biases. Being aware of your thoughts and feelings.
Allow me to add please.
The perceptual field itself can have different forms, depending on knowledge/belief. For example, the perceptual field of waking state is made of gross objects in conformance with the belief "I am this gross body". Similarly the perceptual fields of dream and deep sleep states are different, conforming to knowledge/belief of the respective states.
As per esoteric understanding of Upanishads, what runs common through the three states is the Self and its knowledge too.
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Gambit
Well-Known Member
Is the self the subject of perception or the object of perception or both?
psychoslice
Veteran Member
The Self as I use the name is our true Being, the Self is all there is, the Source or Consciousness, the subject of perception is the self, the self that isn't our true self, it sees all through its conditioning and programming, the object of perception is also our Self, for we are all there is, the object that we perceive is also us, we are not just this thing covered in skin, we are the Source.
Papoon
Active Member
A hyphenated expression without adequate qualification to meaningfully answer.