Questions: Self Identity

[nushu2]

I think that the best way to examine the self is not through introspection. We should be looking at the way we affect friends, family and the world around us. If extrospection isn't a word, it ought to be.

In physics, particles can only be studied through their interactions.

 

[mismused]

I think that the best way to examine the self is not through introspection. We should be looking at the way we affect friends, family and the world around us. If extrospection isn't a word, it ought to be.

In physics, particles can only be studied through their interactions.

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Not sure about that, or unsure, for that matter, at least about physics. What comes to mind mostly is Fred Hoyle, the Brit who coined the term Big Bang, though disparagingtly, I understand.

He is also the bull dog, or pit bull, take your choice, that was adamant about where to look for how carbon is made.

Yes, others had stated that they thought that it had to do with a particular resonance with a very short lived Berylium type, but every one else had given up.

What is peculiar about Hoyle is that subborn way in which he held steady in where to look for the resonance that had eluded everyone, including the best computers with all their knowledge, or so the story goes.

He had to get a "friend" in California to do him a favor, else we still may not have discovered what Hoyle did. Why was he so adamant about it?

Some sort of intuition, insight, or perhaps introspection of some kind. Doesn't intuition take a certain amount of introspection to even look at it, or can't the same be said about insight?

You may have a point on your idea of "extrospection," but maybe introspection shouldn't be left out, especially since the idea of self is non physical, an idea at best from our vantage point at this time.

Just my thoughts on it, and I do definitely stand to be corrected, or shown more, or other.

mismused