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I realized I had no true self when I was 13, and over my life this has developed into a theme. I feel as though I'm a series of masks, or personalities, all the way down into the abyss; if you try to uncover the truth of me, you'll find nothing there at all.

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“I realized I had no true self when I was 13....” Your self is that “I” that is realizing these things. It’s what the series of masks is latched onto.

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What can I say about the I that is not a mask?

10:16 PM · Jul 31, 2019

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“It” is the thing that has enough continuity to say in the past I was different than I was today. The thing that makes a memory different from an observation of somebody else. How often does the mask change? Every split second or every few years? It’s not much I admit.

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I'd suggest it's your Gödel invariant. That doesn't mean that it doesn't exist , but it does mean that it's not something you can know.

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Just that it exists.

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Others will tell you.

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It's the entity that selects, modifies and judges the masks.