They may be self-conscious, but are they conscious of a *metaphysically substantial, enduring self*?
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Replying to @NoaidiX @memeristor
Moreover, are "you" conscious of a *metaphysically substantial, enduring self*?
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Need to sit with that question for awhile if not a long while.
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Replying to @memeristor @NoaidiX
"metaphysically substantial, enduring self" Would you be so kind as to rephrase the above. Reading "Aquinas: Metaphysics" Generally it is my position that matter and energy represent one and the same thing. As to enduring self everything is in movement constantly changing.
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Substantial in the sense alluded to in the earlier distinction between substance metaphysics and process metaphysics. Enduring (permanent, fixed, unchanging) as opposed to impermanent. Metaphysically substantial, enduring self = some-"thing" bearing fixed identity across time.
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Replying to @NoaidiX @memeristor
If some-"thing" is in process of arising/ceasing or is in movement, constantly changing, then it bears no identity over time and cannot be rightfully called a "self" in any ultimate capacity.
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Replying to @memeristor @NoaidiX
Self as a product of the contents of the alaya vijnana is without enduring substance. Self as a product of practice has different properties and possibilities and is more enduring. This self is no longer entirely a product of the A. V. Yet not sufficiently dev to be independent
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As a product of the ālayavijñāna, "self" is illusion. The manas mis-taking the ālaya as "self" is delusion.
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Replying to @NoaidiX
Nevertheless, although no objective self exists a subjective self does. It is a product of the contents of the vault and the emotional response to sense interaction with the vault. Entirely derivative and reactive yet felt as real.
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Felt as real, yes. Many illusions and delusions are felt as real.
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Replying to @NoaidiX
IMO a accurate understanding self must include an understanding of our physical emotional and intellectual natures.
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