fragments, 2/11/04

[novapsyche]

I am, therefore That must be.

As I exist, I observe. An observer must be what he is, and to do is to be--or vice versa in this case. The observed must exist, because I exist, and as I exist, I observe.

What do I observe?

That. The Other. Thou. You. Not I. The mirror.

Comments

Re: the mirror

[novapsyche.livejournal.com]

How did I become we?

Re: the mirror

[metaphorge.livejournal.com]

I'd imagine in much the same way that people develop multiple personality disoreder, or an actor prepares for a role in a play, or the way we are both ourselves and our characters when we play RPG's.

Alternately, the same way that our computers can run muliple programs at the same time. I feel this may be a better metaphor, because sometimes certain programs will lock up or crash, and will not relinquish their portion of system resources.

It seems that any large thing will be divided up into functional parts in some way or another. Our bodies are no different... do each of our blood cells 'consider' themselves separate?

I think the Hindus got a lot right with the way their pantheon functioned... gods and goddesses were always mutating from one form to another, or dividing up, or merging with each other Durga is a notable gestalt... I would compare her to the Constructicons (who merge to form Devestator) in Transformers (tyrsalvia suggests that Durga could be called Devi-stator).

(Just my take on it, of course, and probably not anything you don't Know.)