Just to be clear: You don’t  experience hunger as being on the way to eating.”

 

Nick Thompson

 <mailto:[email protected]> [email protected]

 <https://wordpress.clarku.edu/nthompson/> 
https://wordpress.clarku.edu/nthompson/

 

From: Friam <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Frank Wimberly
Sent: Wednesday, April 28, 2021 11:20 AM
To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [FRIAM] What makes you who you are?

 

Nick, 

 

I experience the world very differently from you.  I have been aware of self 
observation as a source of inference about oneself ever since I was s student 
of Bem in the late sixties.  I still experience hunger which leads me to eat.  
I do not infer that I'm hungry by observing that I am preparing to eat.  As you 
and I have discussed many times.

 

Frank

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140 Calle Ojo Feliz, 
Santa Fe, NM 87505

505 670-9918
Santa Fe, NM

 

On Wed, Apr 28, 2021, 10:46 AM <[email protected] 
<mailto:[email protected]> > wrote:

Jochen,

 

The idea that there is a “you” is an outsider’s view which you adopt as an “I”. 
 You know that your “I” is a confusion, a collage.  I have given up on “the 
will” altogether except as an expression of what my “you” is about to do.  Am I 
going to bend down and pick up my socks.  Let’s see, am I leaning that way.  
Does my hand go out to brace me on the sink.  Why Gosh!  I guess I am.

 

Nick Thompson

[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> 

https://wordpress.clarku.edu/nthompson/

 

From: Friam <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > On 
Behalf Of Jochen Fromm
Sent: Wednesday, April 28, 2021 12:36 AM
To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group <[email protected] 
<mailto:[email protected]> >
Subject: [FRIAM] What makes you who you are?

 

I am not sure that I exist, actually. I am all the writers that I have read, 
all the people that I have met, all the women that I have loved; all the cities 
I have visited.
~ Jorge Luis Borges

I stumbled upon this Borges quote today in a social media post from Jessica 
Flack and started to wonder if one could say that each of us is a small 
creative masterpiece since building up a personality is a creative process. Our 
personality is created from all the people we have met, all the lessons we have 
been taught, all the words and ideas we have heard from others. From all these 
impressions we have selected bits and pieces of behavior that work for us. Just 
as our subjective experience is formed by the slice of the world we have 
experienced, our individual personality is formed by the particular actions we 
repeatedly do. Therefore the unique path which we choose to walk in this world 
is forming our personality just as much as the unique slice of the world which 
we perceive is molding our subjective experience. Would you agree?

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/articles/202004/what-makes-you-who-you-are

-J.

 

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