"Jim07D5" wrote:
Maybe self is only denoted but not described. It is that which one has
in mind, and denotes, by the first person singular personal pronouns
-- I, me, my, mine. My horse, my elbow, my thoughts, my soul, none of
the objects possessed *is* the self. The concept of "mine" is
developed early in life and in fact, a lot of life has to do with
negotiating its domain. In A Humean way, nothing that can follow
"my..." is the self, everything thusly related to the self, is other
than it.
This is what I was trying to convey when I said that the question "what is
this 'me'?" -- i.e. the 'owner' in the phrase 'my body', 'my mind', etc. --
it's like hunting for a black cat in a dark room with no cat in it.
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