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It is a prevailing goal in life to be yourself. We want to be authentic and self-honest -- and we should. But when we think about this, we inevitably encounter the problem: who even are we? In this video, we explore the illusory notion of the 'self', how 'you' technically don't have one, and the ways in which you can still be your true self in spite of its mysterious, illusive nature.
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This reminds me of my favorite quote from Dune: "Life is not a mystery to solve, but a reality to experience."
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Strangely the people with extreme long-term memory loss are probably closer to who we really are than anyone with great memory recall capability.
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I don't know who I am or what that question means at this point, I'm just living an experience and try to make this experience as good as possible not through hedonism but through self development, through exercise, eating healthy, making YouTube videos as my creative outlet, etc...
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The quote by Emerson hits hard for me. I've made a lot of mistakes in my life, and my own past behaviour puzzled me which later stemmed from undiagnosed complex-PTSD from events I lived through when I was much younger. Thinking back on who I was 20, 10, or even 3 years ago feels like reflecting upon a totally different person who I have to accept was me.
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I am just the witness of all that's around me and within me.
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I used to be afraid of dying, and that led to a massive fear of his going to sleep, since you're pretty much dying very time you lose consciousness. I got over both once I realized the thing I thought was dying didn't exist to begin with, so there's no loss in either process, since the self is just a process as well.
Oh and it's impossible to not be yourself. Even if you're emulating certain characteristics of someone else that's just a desire that you have encouraging you to do so.
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But this begs the question: should you be held accountable of past actions? If who you were 10 years ago is completely different than who you are now, and you have a complete contrast of mindset. People only know who you are as a memory. No one will ever understand who you are now, as you will have evolved mentally, ever so slightly. This was a great concept and will have me thinking for months :)
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In the last two years of my life, I've lost all sense of purpose and emotion. I've become numb to external factors that affect my life. Lost my family, friends and all ties to the outside world. I wish those who read this to reach out to those they love, as one day you might lose it all
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I see myself more as just a story. A tale of events that stretches beyond and before my current existence. I am not my body or mind but my actions and only those actions that are remembered.
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I think who we are is the spacetime we occupy. The continuous physical space at a specific times that nobody else can occupy. The time and space we take up in other minds as we exist. The time and space of all the results of everything we’ve ever interacted with. That’s what death really is. We stop occupying anything as a singular concept.
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beautiful timing. I wrote this yesterday:
Everyday, shit changes. Everyday, I change and I hope everyday, you change. I guess you can call that freedom. If you have the courage to see that way.
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Never in my life have I heard a string of words that brought me to tears that wasn’t a part of a song or movie/play. I came to this video wanting to figure out who I am. Now all I want is to experience the best life I possibly can. Thank you.
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When I was 7 My brother once told me that if I ask myself who am I over and over you will start feeling weird & will get to this weird point where you won't recognize your own thoughts or voice or self. I can't explain it but it's one of the most scariest and almost like your conscious and sense of self detaches from your body and well it's almost like you enter this realm of absolute awareness. I keep searching for those exact words, repeating who am I, who am I and see if anyone else has experienced/described something similar. I really can't explain this sense of being self aware yet being completely detached from that moment exactly at the same time. Where everything hits you, every thought, realization of the life you have lived, it's to difficult to put into words.
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The eternal question. Likely at the core of philosophy itself
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I feel like the only way we can really find true peace is by uncovering who we are, because, in essence, that's exactly what we are. Just a thought.
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It puts you into a state where nothing matters in a good way. You truly don't give a shit about anything and you're just happy as fuck as a result, because nothing matters. Nothing matters, nothing means anything, there's nothing to do, there's no point, there's no goal but there's also no boredom, there's no negative meanings attached to the meaninglessness, it's just perfectly meaningless and it's awesome. You're basically just like sitting like a cat on a windowsill enjoying whatever experience is before it, just being and it feels amazing. 🦄
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You never cease to amaze me how well you get to summarize the most complex answers to the most important questions in under 10 minutes! I see the beauty in your philosophy, even more so when I think of the psychological/philosophical concepts that you indirectly refer to (Projection bias, Theseus' ship, Dasein, etc.)
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I went into a deep depression 4 years ago because I went down a tangent from this thought alone. I ruminated in solitude which probably fuelled it even more. I’m still struggling and it’s taken so much of whatever it is I am. Too scared to actually end it all too. I am not living or existing. Wouldn’t wish this on anyone, it’s a hellish purgatory.
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Wake up babe, new existential crisis just dropped.
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