on knowing
i agree, and when you think about it, it's kind of odd that we can often know other people better than we can know ourselves. i mean, if your own self is constantly changing and is always t+1, can you really ever know yourself?
Isn't it also true that the others we think we know are changing? Do you think there are parts of oursevelves that do not change?
Yeah I think so, but what part of us would this be? Definately not our mind since it receives new things all the time and progressively gets more advanced as we become adults. Definately not our physical body, since that ages every day. Our "soul/spirit"? Or perhaps whatever makes me distinctly me and you distinctly you? Are these non-changing? I can't say that I know
This is a very interesting discussion.
Ann: That is an intriguing point about those around us always changing and us not being able to know them beyond the exact moment we last were in contact with them. For a strict insider epistemologist, it would seem as if knowing someone was next to impossible.
Ross: I agree with you regarding some existing part of ourselves that does not change. While alive we are constantly changing in mind and body, but there is something, something I can generalize only so broadly as to say "being alive," that I think does not change. While we can change our names, the conditions of our body, and our ways of looking at the world, the identifiable 'life' that makes up who we are can not be changed until we are no longer alive.
Yeah, very interesting indeed Nick. It seems that although almost every part of our life changes at some point during our time of living, it seems that this "being alive" is perhaps the only thing that does not change and maybe is what gives it all a sense of unity (until we die of course). What happens after our "being alive" ends though? What happens after this only non-changing aspect that we know of changes?