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Before I was aware of philosophy I had a moment of self doubt until at line crossed my mind. When reality is in question and you question everything, it’s good to remind yourself of the fundamentals. Its so simple and yet profound. It does lead into some other problems. Sometimes, when I hear that line, I think of one of my other favourite quotes from a movie “Waking Life”:
When you realize that you might be a character in someone else’s dream, that is self awareness!
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In my younger days I would swim in the waters of existential doubt. Am I here? Do I feel? Is this real? Maybe we are all the dream of something we cannot conceive. Then, one day, I lost all doubt and stood on the firmest ground I had ever known. I stubbed my toe and was sure beyond all wonder, all thoughts of gods and suspicion of higher consciousnesses, ouch, that bloody hurt.
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I realized that my own existence was the only thing I could be 100% certain of when I was a little kid. Not saying I'm as smart as Descartes or anything, but I have always been a deep thinker, and I distinctly remember having this realization and being a bit freaked out about it. I was probably around 8 years old.
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When I was very young, I used to think that everyone around me was an actor, and I was the only one not "in on it". I felt this at like age 7-8 years old, and I had never seen or heard of the movie "The Truman Show" yet. I was pondering my existence way before I knew what philosophy or anything like that was.
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I revered Renee's "I think, therefore I am" until I studied Buddhism's 5 aggregates that how the thing we call "I" is simply the by product of 5 aggregates interacting with each other. When Renee made the discovery "I think, therefore I am" he just grasped the cognition part of it. The Buddhist perspective argues that the "I" or self is not a permanent and unchanging entity but rather a transient phenomenon that arises from the interaction of these five aggregates. The self is a concept created by the mind to make sense of these aggregates, but it lacks inherent existence.
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10:44 I think what he meant was that we are what we individually perceive ourselves to be. The only thing that is true is our perspective to ourselves which is why others matter but shouldnt influence our perspectives, like dont let the anger of others change you, you are the only one that can change yourself. Your perspective, you are the only one that matters to you but you should still listen and understand others, see the other perspectives but dont let them force you into something you arent. Like thinking im a victim makes me a victim in my perspective but if i chose to understand what is then i see i am not what i see but what i chose to change myself into. Use the differences of reality to change yourself but dont allow reality to change you, you are the one with the choice to be what you want and think.
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Inceptism, dunno if it exists yet but, the idea of ideas getting lost in other ideas, is never ending. Whatever we are contemplating or trying to resolve in the present moment, will only bounce off into another idea later on, Your whole life is a stream of thoughts that 99% of people have, just in a different order.
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It’s important to outline counter arguments to this proposition. I remember when I first heard about DeCartes I thought he made absolute sense. Later when people like Nietzche argued for existence precedes essence I realized that DeCartes didn’t address those paths. But very informative and DeCartes contribution to thinking is nonetheless revolutionary.
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@joesands8860
9 months ago
I remember when I was ate 8 years old thinking what makes me me in my head. Why am I me inside this body and not another. I really thought hard about this for a couple days, then went back to being an 8 year old kid. 50 years later and I still wonder about this sometimes.
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