Even your own subjective experience about the self is not fixed.

Socioeconomic and biological factors like microbes and parasites silently influence your mood and choices.

Stay humble judging others, you are changing too.

With every moment, the world is made new, while we remain unaware of renewal in our existence.Life comes like a stream, ever fresh and fresh again, continuously revealing itself within the body.Rumi

With every moment, the world is made new, while we remain unaware of renewal in our existence.Life comes like a stream, ever fresh and fresh again, continuously revealing itself within the body.Rumi

We have all heard the advice: To understand another person, you should put yourself in their shoes and see the world through their eyes. But is that even possible? It appears not. Maybe this is exactly why we can never fully understand each other. How often have we been surprised by the actions of someone we believed we understood well, when they acted in a way that is totally unlike their usual behavior?

In his famous book—What Is It Like to Be a Bat?—Thomas Nagel puts it this way: An organism has conscious mental states if and only if there is something that it is like to be that organism, something that exists for that organism. To be a "self" means to have an inner world that can only be touched from the inside. This inner quality is deeply personal and private. From this view, being me is no different from any other inner experiences. It is made of the same stuff as consciousness itself: the taste of that first cup of coffee in the morning, the orange glow of a sunset by the sea, or the sense of relief after a difficult exam.

Nagel, like other philosophers such as David Chalmers, argues that science alone is not enough to account for these inner qualities. Physical explanations cannot claim to have uncovered the whole truth........

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