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Everything's external. All of reality. The moment we become conscious of something, it becomes external or "other". And whatever is unconscious is internal. Externality is inherently phenomenal. Internality is inherently representative.
This common sense belief in the self as the body falls apart when we consider its public nature as necessarily being a thing or an itself. Even when discussed by others, the body is never attributed with a who status but only with a what status. And so it is always assumed as a thing, as an instrument used BY the self and belonging TO the self --to the invisible who or "I" everlurking in its depths. This is likely where the notion of the soul comes from.
Quote:In everyday conversation contexts, the pronoun "I" is ultimately referring to "this body" because that public object is what's available to other observers (not the internal phenomenal affairs traditionally construed as belonging to an immaterial soul or whatever).
This common sense belief in the self as the body falls apart when we consider its public nature as necessarily being a thing or an itself. Even when discussed by others, the body is never attributed with a who status but only with a what status. And so it is always assumed as a thing, as an instrument used BY the self and belonging TO the self --to the invisible who or "I" everlurking in its depths. This is likely where the notion of the soul comes from.
