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Today I stumbled upon the lecture on the perception of the self. To achieve some of the social changes discussed on this blog it could very well be needed to shift more towards this understanding of ourselves.

The idea is to look at ourselves not as entities in and of themselves, but as processes and collections. In this sense we all become interchangable, which is highly relevant to any social change. Indeed, understanding society as interchangable is probably the only thing that ever has changed our societies. The problem then is that we currently understand ourselves as these rigid entities that already have been shaped. We believe we mature into hardened shells. As grown ups we could not start changing our lives too roughly or we might be faced with a loss of identity, something none of us wish for.

We could potentially start bringing about some very needed change, were we to fully grasp this philosophy of chaos. Because it is chaotic, and that is what frightens us. There is no order other than what we introduce to the mess of the universe. But percieving that as either good or bad is up to the individual.

We are what we are shaped as, but unlike the other species on this blue planet of ours, we have been invited to join into the process of this shaping. Disregarding this is as irresponsible as over-feeding half the world while starving the other half.