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Originally Posted by Michael Chui  Okay. Show me a set of experiments that operationalize the concept of self and provide hard data conclusively demonstrating there exist separate entities called "selves". If you want to claim it backs you up, then show me. |
No. Now what are you going to do? Does me saying 'no' prove that I am wrong? No it doesn't. Besides I don't need to do what you ask. It's obvious. It's common sense.
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I make no claim that science backs me up.
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And yet you still believe it.
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No, actually, it took me a good six years to develop the theory that claims it.
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Why did you take so long? Is it that it took you 6 years to BELIEVE it because the opposite is pretty obvious. You even admit it when you say "Most people seem to share it with you, in some variation or another." If it took you so long to believe what you do now, then you did once believe the same as the rest of us and you should then be able to understand what I am saying.
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You claim that the heart has a desire that is either selfish or selfless at any one point, and that this defines the nature of the action undertaken.
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I don't remember making that statement. We do a lot of things that are neither selfless nor selfish. And there are plenty of things that are both selfish AND selfless. I'm saying that you should consciously filter your actions when you can and attempt to do selfless things when possible. Your concern should be for the welfare of other people instead of yourself.
If everyone did this, then all of your friends and family would be living for you. You could count on a dozen people to be there for you any time you need help. With the selfish way the world works now, you are the only person living for you. You only have one person that you can count on all the time, you.