The true self: a most convenient fiction

Good to believe in, even if not real

There is no evidence of its existence. Yet the idea of the true self – who you really are deep down – is everywhere in our popular culture: in music, literature, films, and the entire self-help industry. But even if our journeys of self-discovery set out to find something that doesn’t exist, and even if there’s no such thing as “becoming who we really are”, believing we have a true self helps us make sense of the world, find our lives more meaningful, and act more morally, argue Rebecca Schlegel and Joshua Hicks.  

 

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fayolaa mary 7 July 2021

Very good, I think I found the knowledge I needed. I will see and refer some information in your post. thank you krunker

Abraham Joseph 1 July 2021

Thoughts& ideas belong to the thinker, or the individual person who is a distinct entity from others, or a self.

Self may not have any independent essence, but it does have a SENSIBLE system like the sensible structure of atoms, as explained here; http://unrecognizedobjectsofthemind.blogspot.com/2017/05/the-physics-behind-birth-of-human-self-i.html?m=1

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BRENDEN WEBER 24 June 2021

Very interesting article