| Author | Message | ||
     Des (Des) Username: Des Registered: 09-2010 Posted From: 86.159.146.177 |
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 |
Sometimes, but not continuously | ||
| Joel (Joel) Username: Joel Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 217.37.199.45 |
Not if I can avoid doing so. | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 82.26.216.33 |
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 |
Only very faintly. And emotionally not at all. | ||
| Carolinec (Carolinec) Username: Carolinec Registered: 06-2009 Posted From: 92.232.199.129 |
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 |
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 |
Through a very unreliable filter, yes. | ||
| Des (Des) Username: Des Registered: 09-2010 Posted From: 86.159.146.177 |
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'... |