Self-Knowledge
Overthink
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Reflection and Reflexivitya and Refractiona
i see other people as active surfaces who bounce back to us the light or the image that we put out. And it's through that reflection from those other surfaces that we synthesize a kind of rough image of who we take ourselves to be. So think about like like a house of mirrors, almost, when you get a lot of reflections from yourself and then you kind of unify them as a way of establishing an eye. Yet, this reminds me a little bit of william james’s notion of different layers of the self,. where he says that we have a social self, and we actually have as many social selves as there are individuals who recognize us in our mind.
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