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Reshaping The Self | Dan Zahavi, Lisa Bortolotti, Anders Sandberg

Philosophy For Our Times

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Is the Self Like Santa Claus?

The self is not something physical that you can locate somewhere. You don't need to be a sophisticated, linguistic creature in order to have a self. And so i guess the trick is to try and think, for myself, what does it do for me? What is it that before having a sense of self, i could not make sense of? Lis: "My way of characterizing myself is utterly not the same as other people"

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