Agreed. "Consciousness as we understand it evolved to negotiate." Agency evolved to overcome it. Very few of us have more than minimum agency.
The thing that people take to be their "true self" is actually the reputation they desire others to hold of them. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1089268019829472 … Thought provoking essay by the great Roy Baumeister.pic.twitter.com/AWGahaV9QD
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This is the comic-pathetic view of the self. It also sounds like the opposite of what every kid must learn growing up: that it doesn't matter what other people think.
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Only half the story. People can also be terrified to death that their "true self" is just as damaged or unseemly as they believe it to be and would do everything in their power to conceal it from others
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PDF available anywhere?
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I'll read it, someday.
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Are you your true self or are you what people think you are?
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True self doesn’t have any desire. True self IS. So, the q, indeed, reflects false guidance and the colonizing of the topic by people with a business interest.
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cute
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