User:Squab chowder

The human self is hosted by a great concert of organisms which constitute the flesh, and whose processes produce the structures relied upon in that hosting [language here - as ambitious as ever to weave a concreteness, even an intentionality, into phenomena - is helpful but misleading; notions of "process" hide non-contributing phenomena which are at equal incidental value; that is, entirely arbitrary]. There is an illusion cast by a false triangulation - that is between the eyes, ears and nose, along with the organisation of appendages - which has us under the impression that the self rides within the skull, from which the world of experience becomes known to us. Quite to the contrary, it is more accurate to say that our self emerges equally from all quarters of the body. Of course, the body is not itself distinct from that which interacts with it to give it life, from the sensory stimuli which inform us of our situation, and from what we provide to the environment and to the other beings therein. Moreover, there is nothing concrete so as to be hosted; the impulses of consciousness only appear to create a self when held in aggregate regard.

Squab chowder (talk) 07:56, 10 October 2013 (UTC)