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Is loving someone essentially selfish?
Since you mention that this question is in connection to Ayn Rand, she most certainly did not think that something is selfish merely because you take pleasure from it. Indeed, Rand went to great ...
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Quid sit ego, what is the self?
I have a fun response which is related to your handle.
What is then, o philosopher, that which claims as its own, the body, the brain, the mind, the soul, and the outside things?
Agent Smith is like ...
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Quid sit ego, what is the self?
Body/Brain (physical) and Mind (subtle) are yours, but they are not you. Just like a car is yours but not you.
Soul is the true you.
While ego is the manifestation of identity that we accumulate ...
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Quid sit ego, what is the self?
Suggests, ex mea sententia, that, the ego (self) is not an element of the set {body, brain, mind, soul}.
Those phrases being commonly used doesn't preclude them from being semantically incorrect.
If ...
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Quid sit ego, what is the self?
What is then, o philosopher, that which claims as its own, the body,
the brain, the mind, the soul, and the outside things?
It is You. Or according to a neuro-philosophical anthropology: Your ...
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Quid sit ego, what is the self?
What is then, o philosopher, that which claims as its own, the body,
the brain, the mind, the soul, and the outside things?
These are your tools. You are that, which uses these tools and at the same ...
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Is there any evidence to suggest that our conciousness regularly replaces itself?
Leaving aside dualism, we are mind/body. The body regenerates constantly. There is a difference between consciousness and identity. Consciousness is discontinuous. This does not mean that it is ...
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Why am I this particular human being?
Look,feel,think etc, this is Experience. A part of this Experience is an imagined self including internal narratives about self. It is probably your brain that creates the Experience and the ...
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Why am I this particular human being?
I am going to concentrate on the general aspect of this question - consciousness. I am here and now x because universal events have led to x, a conscious being. If we accept the monist panpsychist ...
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