Greetings, Marsha --
The Buddhists have it correct. There is no inherently existing self. ... The 'I', 'self', 'me' and 'mine' are conventional inventions, and should not be confused as being absolutely real.
If I am not my self, whose self am I? Convention's?
Epistemology is a conceptional system, rationally constructed.
Who's concept and who's reason constructs it?
What if freedom lay outside the boundaries of a rationally constructed epistemology?
What would Freedom be outside the boundaries of a relational universe in process? To be free, one must have the option to change his situation or the objects and events in his world. That requires a space/time environment.
I will say that the YOU exists, but within a conventionally constructed reality.
What is a "conventionally constructed" reality, and how is it different than actual reality -- the physical world YOU and I exist in?
If the universe and its compoents were free, atoms and molecules, genes, and energy could go off in all directions, making the laws of physics a sham and creating chaos instead of an orderly system. YOU and I would probably never even have made it into such a reality.
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