[MD] Static Self

[Arlo Bensinger]

[Marsha]
Just for the record, what is the relationship of the word 
'individual' to the word 'self'?

[Arlo]
"Individual" is often used to refer to the biologically bounded 
organism. An "individual" cat, or an "individual" dolphin. The "human 
individual" is defined by this biological boundedness as well.

"Self" is the dialogic "voice" that emerges as the proprietary 
experiences of this bounded organism are interwoven into the 
assimilated collective consciousness of social interactions. That is, 
the "self" is the dialogic-fulcrum point between collective awareness 
and proprietary experience.

Thus, "Marsha" as an "individual" refers to the specific biological 
being (as I see it), while the "Marsha-self" is a interwoven tapestry 
of voices that emerges as that biological being experiences within a 
social milieu.

Just my opinion as a commie, Marxist, freedom-hating "academic".