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Default 12-04-2011, 05:14 PM

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Originally Posted by RLAJay View Post
Why would this be depressing though. What would you prefer "you" or the "self" be? Something spiritually unique? The soul?
Well yes, something along those lines. Some call it "awareness". We can't just be stimulus response units and bundles of conditioned behaviours, at least intuitively it seems wrong to me. If you zoom out and take a global view of that idea, it makes the human race seem like a mockery, like rats in a maze. Maybe it's all the Disney-esque drivel we're fed when young making us think we're all unique and special. I do have some alignment with your position though, in terms of it implies great fluidity of adaptation, and from my spiritual experience I have experienced not identifying with behaviour...but, there's something off about the whole thing. It's too easy, to mechanical, it's missing something somehow.

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