12-16-2024, 01:41 PM
(12-16-2024, 11:09 AM)UltraBudgie Wrote: This is beautiful! Thank you.
That old "Cartesian scam", great insight. Always question anyone who has something named after them, haha. You're reminding me of Julian Jaynes, The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind, and the ways we externalize, project and individuate while we may indeed be talking to ourself. The word really is ego, isn't it?
Thanks UltraBudgie, you always say nice things! I think you are very intelligent!
Regarding the ego..I think this is from Nietzsche, kind of obscure maybe. Once upon a time my favourite book was Zarathustra!
"Body am I, and soul" so saith the child. And why should one not speak like children? But the awakened one, the knowing one, saith: "Body am I entirely, and nothing more; and soul is only the name of something in the body." The body is a big sagacity, a plurality with one sense, a war and a peace, a flock and a shepherd. An instrument of thy body is also thy little sagacity, my brother, which thou callest "spirit" a little instrument and plaything of thy big sagacity. "Ego," sayest thou, and art proud of that word. Bur the greater thing in which thou art unwilling to believe is thy body with its big sagacity; it saith not "ego," but doeth it."
