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Modern science has caught up to the philosophy of the
nineteenth century. Studies of the brain by sensory depravation and split brain procedures have yielded no evidence of a consistent sense of self. In fact, philosophicly, we have no objective Self. In "Being and Nothingness" Sartre argues that Selfawarness is afforded only through a negation of being. Our illusionary Self is derived from amorphous memories, memories which are products of sensory data. The Human brain starves for such data, for a desperate sense of identity, and if it is not satiated it makes up stimulus as seen in depravation chambers and dreams. This line of though leads to solipsism. Sartre bent his thesis' to avert such conclusion, though his argument was that solipsism can't be true thus his view must be right. ===== It is indubitable that at present that I exist as an object for some German of other. But do I exist as a Frenchman, as a Parisian in the indifferentiation of the collectives or in my capacity as this Parisian around whom the Parisian population and the French collectivity are suddenly organized to serve for him as ground? For this I will only get bits of probable knowledge although they can be infinitely probable.Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness |