Hm. Jeg blir ikke ferdig med dette. Det er ikke det at det plager meg; det bare klør veldig i hjernen min:
It seems we have some tough choices in thinking about our own precious self. We can hang on to the way it feels and assume that a persisting self or soul or spirit exists, even though it cannot be found and leads to deep philosophical troubles. We can equate it with some kind of brain process and shelve the problem of why this brain process should have conscious experiences at all, or we can reject any persisting entity that corresponds to our feeling of being a self.
I think that intellectually we have to take this last path. The trouble is that it is very hard to accept in one's own personal life. It means taking a radically different view of every experience. It means accepting that there is no one who is having these experiences. It means accepting that every time I seem to exist, this is just a temporary fiction and not the same 'me' who seemed to exist a moment before, or last week, or last year. This is tough, but I think it gets easier with practice.
Susan Blackmore, Consciousness: A Very Short Introduction, 81.
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