How do you manage not to become absorbed by other objects or other people?

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Do you ever feel puzzled by the fact that you don’t become the object you cast your gaze on? What keeps our self from non-self distinct and separate? Do you ever worry about becoming engulfed by your surroundings? I certainly do.

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Haha, I guess I’m the only one not managing…

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Never heard of this problem. Never had this problem. My biggest worry is finding enough time in a day for all of the things I have to do.

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To me, you are talking about projection, one of the defense mechanisms. You are unsure about your own identity and/or giving so project yourself onto the one you are with.

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I agree with it being projection. I am guilty of this. I feel uncomfortable with my “new” life so I have a difficult time remembering who I am or what I am.

I wish I could concentrate hard enough to really look at something. To see all its details and beauty and become lost in it. There is something beautiful to be said about gazing…

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Nope, I use Rain-X everything just bounces off me.

bad joke lol.

serious note, If you work on your identity and sense of self you will be more solid.

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Ego death???

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Thanks for the replies. Sadly I haven’t found fellow travellers for this one. I guess it’s a transitivity related issue.

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If we’re talking about physical reality, than you’d have to wait many times longer than the age of the universe for this to happen according to quantum mechanics. I would love to learn some physics myself. Sort of scared to death of it. Intimidated.

If we’re talking about psychology, I don’t have a clue. There could be a lot of things like mental illness perception neurology issues, etc. Philosophically, I don’t know either. I tend to look down on philosophy and tend to look up to physics and gravitate towards that.

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There is no real opposition between philosophy and science, they just do different jobs. Good by the way to see you around again.

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I agree. I don’t understand philosophy. I watched some anti-philosophy videos from modern physicists I admire like Sean Carroll and I guess it just stuck. The thing with philosophy is it doesn’t lead to new progress anymore like the old days. I mean we got Simulation Theory, but that paper was from Nick Bostrom. I guess he is a philosopher but he does other things too. We have physicists who are proving that stuff and trying to prove that stuff and engineers who are making that stuff become a reality.

I’d hate for you to get stuck in some philosophical prison like I did with the DP/DR but I guess it has to take it’s course.

I guess philosophers make the initial leap but physicists and engineers come up with the proof, I guess I’m saying.

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