Self

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What Is the Self?

Philosophers, psychologists, and ordinary people are all interested in the pressing question: Who are you? The traditional philosophical answer, found in Plato and Kant and many religious thinkers, is that the self is an immortal soul that transcends the physical.

 Some philosophers who reject this metaphysical view have swung in the other direction and rejected the idea of the self altogether. David Hume said that the self is nothing more than a bundle of perceptions, and Daniel Dennett dismissed the self as merely a “center of negative gravity."

 In contrast, many psychologists have taken the self very seriously, and discussed at length a huge number of important phenomena including self-identity, self-esteem, self-regulation, and self-improvement.

Hence the self is a multilevel system not simply reducible to genes or neurons, emerging from interactions of mechanisms operating at neural, psychological, and social levels. Hume was right that we cannot directly observe the self, but he was wrong in supposing that reality has to be directly observable.

 The self is a theoretical entity that can be hypothesized in order to explain a huge array of important psychological phenomena. The self is very different from the atomic, transcendental, perfectly autonomous self assumed by dualist philosophers, but it is far richer and more explanatory than the skeptical view of philosophers who want to dispose of the self altogether.

 The self does exist, but as a highly complex, multilevel system of interacting mechanisms.

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