I guess this is one of the questions almost everyone has or will ask themselves at some point. What I find most entertaining is while who might at first glance be tough question, our understanding of the nature of reality may have made what the more confusing. That being said many will never get past who, so I'll start with my take on who we are in general sense, before I attempt a prod at the what.
Who am I, might seem pretty easy, I mean I have an identity I use on a daily basis for others to refer to. So I have a name I was given at physical birth, and to one degree or another I identify with this name. In my case I refused to even answer to my given name till middle school. With a name like Jack can you blame me? Some of you might be wondering whats wrong with the name Jack? It isn't that there is something wrong with it, but when you start to look a bit deeper in the meanings and effects of names on the psyche, and even down the physical your perception of it might alter. At this point I'd like to direct you to the work of Dr Masaru Emoto. Is it really such a leap to apply that to your name and the water of your body. Everyday people call you by a name, this name carries with it an form. The form, or energy carried by your name patterns you without your even knowing it. Every name has entangled in it the history of that named being used over and over. Things like the numerology of a name takes on new meaning the numbers telling a story of the energy contained, and the overall effect a particular name carries. In the case of my given first name it would be something like this, 10 1 3 11, in the most widely used western numerology this would be added as individual numbers to come with an overall energy of the name. Looking something like this 1+0+1+3+1+1=7, so the over arching energy would 7. This of course is just one aspect, another is ideas presented by Synchromysticism. Applied to names, and assuming the interaction of the energies present and Jack becomes an identity that perhaps some would find tough to assume. All of this also relies on a thread to be woven through history, a running narrative extending back into antiquity, and forward off into infinity. Some would argue that there is no linkage that can be identified that warrants these ideas be anymore then speculation. I say we are link, we write the stories, we become the tapestry linking them all. How does this all add up to who I think I am? Well to put it simply, I am a work of fiction. As one of my favorite t-shirts states "fictional character". I'm not sure a more true representation of our condition can be found, I have a running narrative, containing the character I am currently playing. My conception of self is less important to you, then your concept of me. So I don't even have a set identity, who am I changes as the way those around me perceive me changes. Even my sense of self identity relies on the culture I find myself in, just try to describe who you are without using other people, things, or events. As strange as our sense of identity might be, it pales when compared with what we are.
What we are becomes so much a matter of perception, and the deeper you look the stranger we seem. Most medical doctors will say we are mostly water, while most physicists will say your mostly empty space. Both are correct when looked at from their respective perspectives. When you keep going down the rabbit hole into the realm of quantum the fun really begins. Suddenly the fact we are as paradoxical as the idea of particle or wave becomes so self evident as to defy what most consider rational explanation. As it turns out we are an illusion, a trick of the senses, think seeing is believing. we appear solid, though we know there is nothing solid we can find. Even our perceptions are as easy to change as clicking the remote to switch channels. Our senses so easily fooled, yet trusted implicitly. When was the last time you stopped to consider how your senses function, how what you perceive isn't exactly a lie, though it's only accurate from a human perspective. When was the last time you thought about how your "senses" function, or even questioned the limits we are given on the senses. How many senses do you even have? this might seems silly but this video from the Animaniacs points out the limit of 5 senses isn't even accurate. The view we are a classical system made up of quantum components may be one of the most accurate I've seen to date, it may even hold the clue to the interface between mind, body, spirit through entanglement. So what am I? Does it even matter? I and no one else can answer these questions for you, all anyone can do is give the answers that work for them.
Jack
aka
PanseyBard
Who am I, might seem pretty easy, I mean I have an identity I use on a daily basis for others to refer to. So I have a name I was given at physical birth, and to one degree or another I identify with this name. In my case I refused to even answer to my given name till middle school. With a name like Jack can you blame me? Some of you might be wondering whats wrong with the name Jack? It isn't that there is something wrong with it, but when you start to look a bit deeper in the meanings and effects of names on the psyche, and even down the physical your perception of it might alter. At this point I'd like to direct you to the work of Dr Masaru Emoto. Is it really such a leap to apply that to your name and the water of your body. Everyday people call you by a name, this name carries with it an form. The form, or energy carried by your name patterns you without your even knowing it. Every name has entangled in it the history of that named being used over and over. Things like the numerology of a name takes on new meaning the numbers telling a story of the energy contained, and the overall effect a particular name carries. In the case of my given first name it would be something like this, 10 1 3 11, in the most widely used western numerology this would be added as individual numbers to come with an overall energy of the name. Looking something like this 1+0+1+3+1+1=7, so the over arching energy would 7. This of course is just one aspect, another is ideas presented by Synchromysticism. Applied to names, and assuming the interaction of the energies present and Jack becomes an identity that perhaps some would find tough to assume. All of this also relies on a thread to be woven through history, a running narrative extending back into antiquity, and forward off into infinity. Some would argue that there is no linkage that can be identified that warrants these ideas be anymore then speculation. I say we are link, we write the stories, we become the tapestry linking them all. How does this all add up to who I think I am? Well to put it simply, I am a work of fiction. As one of my favorite t-shirts states "fictional character". I'm not sure a more true representation of our condition can be found, I have a running narrative, containing the character I am currently playing. My conception of self is less important to you, then your concept of me. So I don't even have a set identity, who am I changes as the way those around me perceive me changes. Even my sense of self identity relies on the culture I find myself in, just try to describe who you are without using other people, things, or events. As strange as our sense of identity might be, it pales when compared with what we are.
What we are becomes so much a matter of perception, and the deeper you look the stranger we seem. Most medical doctors will say we are mostly water, while most physicists will say your mostly empty space. Both are correct when looked at from their respective perspectives. When you keep going down the rabbit hole into the realm of quantum the fun really begins. Suddenly the fact we are as paradoxical as the idea of particle or wave becomes so self evident as to defy what most consider rational explanation. As it turns out we are an illusion, a trick of the senses, think seeing is believing. we appear solid, though we know there is nothing solid we can find. Even our perceptions are as easy to change as clicking the remote to switch channels. Our senses so easily fooled, yet trusted implicitly. When was the last time you stopped to consider how your senses function, how what you perceive isn't exactly a lie, though it's only accurate from a human perspective. When was the last time you thought about how your "senses" function, or even questioned the limits we are given on the senses. How many senses do you even have? this might seems silly but this video from the Animaniacs points out the limit of 5 senses isn't even accurate. The view we are a classical system made up of quantum components may be one of the most accurate I've seen to date, it may even hold the clue to the interface between mind, body, spirit through entanglement. So what am I? Does it even matter? I and no one else can answer these questions for you, all anyone can do is give the answers that work for them.
Jack
aka
PanseyBard
