[MD] Static Self

[Marsha]

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From: "Arlo Bensinger" <ajb102 at psu.edu>
To: <moq_discuss at moqtalk.org>
Sent: Monday, July 07, 2008 2:12 PM
Subject: Re: [MD] Static Self


> [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".
> 

I think you're beautiful, and I love you.   
 
Marsha