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Des (Des) Username: Des
Registered: 09-2010 Posted From: 86.159.146.177
| Posted on Friday, September 09, 2011 - 05:57 pm: | |
Do you feel a present continuity with your youngest memory of self? |
Weber (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 194.66.23.11
| Posted on Friday, September 09, 2011 - 06:07 pm: | |
Sometimes, but not continuously |
Joel (Joel) Username: Joel
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 217.37.199.45
| Posted on Friday, September 09, 2011 - 06:37 pm: | |
Not if I can avoid doing so. |
Gary Fry (Gary_fry)
Username: Gary_fry
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 82.26.216.33
| Posted on Friday, September 09, 2011 - 06:48 pm: | |
Being both pretentious and portentous: A memory is an event that puzzled/troubled us. We recall it because, during later reflection, we tried hard to figure it out. The self is the result - successful or otherwise - of these enquiries. The earliest memory of self is the first in a string of such constructive/inquisitive processes. Or to put it another way, yes. |
John Forth (John)
Username: John
Registered: 05-2008 Posted From: 82.24.1.217
| Posted on Friday, September 09, 2011 - 07:27 pm: | |
Only very faintly. And emotionally not at all. |
Carolinec (Carolinec) Username: Carolinec
Registered: 06-2009 Posted From: 92.232.199.129
| Posted on Friday, September 09, 2011 - 07:54 pm: | |
In a very strange kind of way, yes. My earliest memory of self was when I was a baby in my pram. I was bawling my eyes out, but I've no idea why. I don't even know if I knew then! (do babies know why they're crying?) I remember my granddad leaning over the pram trying to console me, to no avail. Nowadays, due to side effects of medication and me being of a certain age when a lady's hormones go a bit wild (ie. the menopause - I guess you menfolk know about that? ), I can also burst into tears for no apparent reason. So I've gone from bawling about nothing in particular at a very young age, to bawling about nothing in particular at this age too. It's kind of scary to have just realised that! |
Carolinec (Carolinec) Username: Carolinec
Registered: 06-2009 Posted From: 92.232.199.129
| Posted on Friday, September 09, 2011 - 08:00 pm: | |
On the other hand, to answer your question more seriously, I feel I'm a completely different person to what I was, say, 40 years ago. My personality has changed in so many ways, either by "accident" (it just develops, I guess) or by design (ie. working on having a more positive, less pessimistic, outlook on life). So, if I look back to those years, it could be a completely different person I'm thinking about. It doesn't really feel like "me" at all, even though I have all those memories. Besides, are our memories really accurate, or are they just our perception of the way things were? |
Darren O. Godfrey (Darren_o_godfrey)
Username: Darren_o_godfrey
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 207.200.116.133
| Posted on Saturday, September 10, 2011 - 04:13 am: | |
Through a very unreliable filter, yes. |
Des (Des) Username: Des
Registered: 09-2010 Posted From: 86.159.146.177
| Posted on Saturday, September 10, 2011 - 08:38 am: | |
I agree with Darren. Any self-examination of the self is presumably bound to be riven with revisions of self-strategy. Only fiction creation can allow one perhaps to begin to stand outside that process. Even if it's just a glimpse of that 'outside-of-self' world. King's attempt at this was 'The Dark Tower'... |