PHI 102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 23: Category Mistake, Jorge Luis Borges, Daniel Dennett
12 Sep 2016
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Unity of perceptions, cognitions, emotions, and actions. There is me : the writer, the self, i walk through the streets of buenos aires i like hourglasses . There is borges: the other one, the persona, he shares these preferences, but in a vain way that turns them into the attributes of an actor . There is jorge luis borges: the author. The author, the writer, and borges are inseparable: i do not know which one of us has written this page. , there is an authentic self that unifies these personae. The author, the writer, and borges are distinct: the other one is the one things happen to. , there is no core authentic self, just a bunch of personae. For my part, when i look inward at what i call myself, i always stumble on some particular perception of heat or cold, light or shade, love or hatred, pain of pleasure, or the like.
