> On 20 Jul 2014, at 3:51 pm, LizR <lizj...@gmail.com> wrote: > > It could be that language constructs the self (or perhaps more precisely that > using language allowed us to create the concept of a self as one amongst many > linguistic concepts).
I don't grok this thing of the self 'evolving' like brains and thumbs. We surely didn't create the concept of the self. The self did not evolve. It switched ON. It awoke. There was a moment. It was a moment in history. Kind of like the ape and the bone in Kubrick's '2001'. It may be that some substance consumed altered consciousness. From that moment forward, there was a signal difference. The possibility of suffering being a very large one. I don't think, along with Russell Standish, that ants are conscious, for example - but individuals may share in a group 'self'. Selfhood is independent of minds or of contents of minds or the precision or mental acuity (perception) of minds. It appears to be the kind of knowledge of something that cannot be demonstrated in any 3p way. K -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
