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What is self-awareness?

LuisDantas

LuisDantas

Aura of atheification
Premium Member
Some of you truly do perceive the concept as clearly corresponding to something that exists in reality, don't you?

It boggles my mind, it truly does.
 
Gambit

Gambit

Well-Known Member
psychoslice said:
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.
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The subject of perception is the false self, but the object of perception is the true self?
 
Papoon

Papoon

Active Member
Gambit said:
Thanks. That was very insightful.
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You are welcome.
Google ignosticism.
Self-awareness could refer to insight into one's personal behaviour, or it may mean the sense of I, or it may mean cognizance of thought processes, emotions or physical sensations. For example.
What did you mean ?
 
Gambit

Gambit

Well-Known Member
Papoon said:
Google ignosticism.
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"Ignosticism is the idea that the question of the existence of God is meaningless, because the term "god" has no unambiguous definition. Ignosticism requires a good, non-controversial definition of god before arguing on its existence." - Wikipedia

Are you ignostic in regards to the term "self" or "God" or both?

Papoon said:
Self-awareness could refer to insight into one's personal behaviour, or it may mean the sense of I, or it may mean cognizance of thought processes, emotions or physical sensations. For example.
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Yes. You are correct.

Merriam-Webster defines "self-awareness" as "an awareness of one's own personality or individuality."

Papoon said:
What did you mean ?
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I basically understand "self-awareness" to refer to the "awareness that I am aware that I am aware." And I am also interested in determining what exactly this "I" refers to.
 
mystic64

mystic64

nolonger active
Gambit said:
"Ignosticism is the idea that the question of the existence of God is meaningless, because the term "god" has no unambiguous definition. Ignosticism requires a good, non-controversial definition of god before arguing on its existence." - Wikipedia

Are you ignostic in regards to the term "self" or "God" or both?



Yes. You are correct.

Merriam-Webster defines "self-awareness" as "an awareness of one's own personality or individuality."



I basically understand "self-awareness" to refer to the "awareness that I am aware that I am aware." And I am also interested in determining what exactly this "I" refers to.
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"And I am also interested in determining what exactly this "I" refers to." It refers to whatever you want it to refer to. Because, "self"/"I" is whatever you personally define it to be.
 
Gambit

Gambit

Well-Known Member
mystic64 said:
"And I am also interested in determining what exactly this "I" refers to." It refers to whatever you want it to refer to. Because, "self"/"I" is whatever you personally define it to be.
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So, what is your personal definition of your "self?"
 
R

raw_thought

Well-Known Member
self equals awareness . Can they be different ? If so, am I that which is percieved r that self that is perceiving ?
 
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raw_thought

Well-Known Member
I am the subject that instantiates predicates. A predicate (such as smart,stupid, moral,evil) without a subject is an abstraction .I am not an abstraction . My thoughts, beliefs, feelings, personality (the continuous form of my feelings ) can change (they do) and I will not change. I am the awareness of those feelings and ideas .
 
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raw_thought

Well-Known Member
If knowledge is defined as the abilty to apply signifiers (labels)then self awareness is impossible. However ,I do know that I exist! Therefore ,there is a way ofknowing without signifiers (language).
Put a label on "existenxe"! Its impossible ! Wheee is it? Point at existence .Not possible! And yet we know that things exist and things do not exist.
For consciousness ,appearance is reality. Feelings exist. Pain exists! Even tho one cannot point at pain. One can point at C fibers firing .But that is not pain. If pain is and only is c fibers firing then pain does not hurt. and that is obviously silly.
 
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raw_thought

Well-Known Member
Do I know ineffable knowledge ? YES! I know how to move my fingers. However ,I cannot write down instructions. If I say, "send electrical impules from your brain to your fingers" that will not help you at all to move your fingers.
 
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Deidre

Well-Known Member
An awareness of one's self, but in only as much as we can know ourselves. We're always evolving, growing, changing...so in as much as we can know ourselves at any given moment.
 
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