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While Ichghthas reads.
There’s some rumor that we can’t perceive the present unless we have a simulated past or future. Everything we do changes our pasts and futures. The present can’t exist without them.
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How can there be another self if self=other? Wouldn’t it all just be one self? One’s self?
Final answer: Double-Edged Golden Rule (self=other) - #12 by Ichthus77
You didn’t answer at all, just avoided the question like in this thread.
That is not a counterargument.
I need a argument to counter.
Challenge my definition and show me how it is a contradiction.
Ichthus77:a self recognizing the other as another self,
How can there be another self if self=other? Wouldn’t it all just be one self? One’s self?
Creepy.
Yes…
If all selves are others and all others are selves, do you have a better copula than the =?
You are using “are” disingenuously.
This is patent if I reformulate as:
If all selves=others and all others=selves, do you have a better copula than the =?
= means “equals” or “is the same as,” which is not the same as “is.”
A dog is brown, but a dog does not equal brown, or is the same as brown.
I am still not understanding/seeing the contradiction.
Do you have another word for this than making every self/other an identical self … like more identical than identical twins.
And what would be the symbol for that word?
= means “equals” or “is the same as,” which is not the same as “is.”
A dog is brown, but a dog does not equal brown, or is the same as brown.
Here I explain it.
That is your misunderstanding but you don’t explain how I should phrase it so that I can prevent misunderstanding.
MAybe you have to abandon the symbolism you have been using, and settle for something less asthetically pleasing but less philosophically insulting, like;
every self is another self to another self.
Self=other would be like making sky=clouds the basis of everything you say, what you hang everything on.
That is what I said. And what alternative symbol would you suggest?