Philosophy of Self
Comments debate the nature of personal identity, questioning whether individuals possess a single true self, multiple facets or personas, or no fixed self at all, often in social and philosophical contexts.
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there is such a thing as a true self and false selves. can you tell them apart?
Those are arguably facets of a single identity.For instance, you did not refer to yourself as "we".
I guess that if you self-identify as a thing, you are that thing.
Different people have different conceptions of “self”, sometimes vastly different.
Why should it have discrete identity and notion of self?
So basically we're all the same person we just think we're different people.
"one of my selves" - the flaw in your logic is revealed by this phrase.
No, you're you. You're just presenting different facets (whether conscious or not) of you.
Another instance of me is a different instance of me than I am, thus it isn't me.
Obviously I don't know how other people feel, but even when I have to project different "identities" in different social situations, I'm still the same person within and just tailoring the output to be appropriate to the settings. I act differently when I'm playing with my son, when I'm at work, when I'm with my wife, etc... But I'm always the same person in all those situations with the same thoughts, the same desires, and can be thinking about those othe