Are there multiple selves?
Are there multiple selves or, just one essential self?
Walking around with a crowd inside our brief case might seem a bit radical when we fundamentally have one heart, one mind, one body. But in reality we entwine that self we have contained, into a myriad of selves flourishing our personality to a question-less clique. Essentially we are many in one, just like earth: having one earth with many selves in it: one galaxy with many planets and so on and so forth. The way things are perceive are inherently the way we want to decipher our environment and based on that comes the abstract element we want to partake. With experiments done by Gazzaniga, such a reality can be issued as well as “The Consciousness of Self” by William James supporting the idea of having more than one self or developing such figures to accustom ourselves to what we are surrounded by day in and day out. Supporter of Gazzaniga, Woolf, also thinks that we are made of multiple selves, if we weren’t than how would one explain how they act around their parents compared to colleagues at work or school. Having one self for a certain group of people and another for a different but with all of those we endear them back to our one mind and our one body. Such research has made me come back to the same conclusion repetitively, that we are made of multiple selves; it’s not humanly possible to portray those numerous individuals physically so instead we do it efficiently through our one body given to us at birth.
Gazzaniga’s experiment of the split-brain condors the idea of having multiple selves within our one mind. Gazzaniga says that the brain is: “a collection of devices that assists the mind’s information-processing demands” (36). Which he is referring to collecting more than one idea and having to compute that through a single action that the body is capable of showing to others and itself as we see every day. All of those synapses firing at once come back to their central home base where that
Walking around with a crowd inside our brief case might seem a bit radical when we fundamentally have one heart, one mind, one body. But in reality we entwine that self we have contained, into a myriad of selves flourishing our personality to a question-less clique. Essentially we are many in one, just like earth: having one earth with many selves in it: one galaxy with many planets and so on and so forth. The way things are perceive are inherently the way we want to decipher our environment and based on that comes the abstract element we want to partake. With experiments done by Gazzaniga, such a reality can be issued as well as “The Consciousness of Self” by William James supporting the idea of having more than one self or developing such figures to accustom ourselves to what we are surrounded by day in and day out. Supporter of Gazzaniga, Woolf, also thinks that we are made of multiple selves, if we weren’t than how would one explain how they act around their parents compared to colleagues at work or school. Having one self for a certain group of people and another for a different but with all of those we endear them back to our one mind and our one body. Such research has made me come back to the same conclusion repetitively, that we are made of multiple selves; it’s not humanly possible to portray those numerous individuals physically so instead we do it efficiently through our one body given to us at birth.
Gazzaniga’s experiment of the split-brain condors the idea of having multiple selves within our one mind. Gazzaniga says that the brain is: “a collection of devices that assists the mind’s information-processing demands” (36). Which he is referring to collecting more than one idea and having to compute that through a single action that the body is capable of showing to others and itself as we see every day. All of those synapses firing at once come back to their central home base where that
Cited: Sources 1.) William James “The Consciousness of Self” from http://psychclassics.yorku.ca/James/Principles/prin10.htm 2.) Michael Gazzaniga “The Split Brain Revisited”: http://cwx.prenhall.com/bookbind/pubbooks/morris4/medialib/readings/split.html 3.) Jonah Lehrer “Virginia Woolf: The Emergent Self” from Proust Was a Neuroscientist 4.) Antonio Damasio “The Quest for Consciousness”: http://www.ted.com/talks/antonio_damasio_the_quest_to_understand_consciousness.html