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Society and the True Self: Part 4 “Up from Inside the Matrix”

Jeff Carreira March 22, 2012Society and the True Self

In my last post I described how many of us awaken to find ourselves in the middle of a life that is more a reflection of social mores than our own autonomous choices. We look …

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Society and the True Self: Part 3 “Waking Up in the Matrix”

Jeff Carreira March 15, 2012Society and the True Self

In my recent posts I have been developing the idea that individual human beings might be more accurately seen as individual expressions of social preferences, attitudes and beliefs than as separate autonomous individuals. We live …

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Society and the True Self: Part 2 “The Socially Conditioned Self”

Jeff Carreira March 10, 2012Society and the True Self

In my last post I described how other peoples’ outside opinions about us get incorporated into our own internal experience of ourselves. Now I want to show how the opinions about us that become part …

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Society and the True Self: Part 1 “How the ‘me’ became the ‘I’”

Jeff Carreira March 1, 2012Society and the True Self

>Human existence is punctuated by distinctions – self/other, me/you, in/out, here/there, us/them, up/down – and the list goes on and on. These distinctions are what we use to locate ourselves in reality. For those of …

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