[MD] self: agent of action & thinker of thoughts

[MarshaV]

On Aug 17, 2011, at 3:56 PM, Ham Priday wrote:

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> "The sense of being a uniquely separate _thing_, whether as something special, or as something autonomous, is strong evidence for our reflexive ascription of boundedness to the self we assume we are.  We can also note its connection with the long-running debate on free-will, and with the fact that many philosophers, such as Kant and Frankfurt, have chosen to identify the most central aspect of our 'selves' with 'the will'."
>      (Albahari, Miri, 'Analytical Buddhism: The Two-tiered Illusion of Self ', p.97) 


Ham,

That was not the self we are, but "the self we assume we are".    


Marsha  
     

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