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    The ego is a representational complex from which all comp... — Carmelics
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    The ego is a representational complex from which all component parts may be negated

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    • 1.Through development of self-consciousness, the self comes to be seen as distinct from its external environment and from the here and now
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    • 2.A representational complex emerges of which all component parts may be negated
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    • 3.No single component part of this complex seems essential to the self
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    • 1.Kant's transcendental unity of apperception requires a formal 'I think' that accompanies all representations as their necessary condition.
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    • 2.A representational complex that can be fully negated cannot supply the synthetic unity that makes representation itself possible.
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    • 3.Therefore the ego cannot be merely one representation among others without destroying the conditions for any representation at all.
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    • 1.William James's stream of consciousness demonstrates that the sense of personal identity persists through a continuous felt ownership of thoughts irreducible to their content.
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    • 2.If all component parts of the ego-complex could be negated, the 'warmth and intimacy' that marks thoughts as mine would lack any stable carrier.
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    • 3.The phenomenological givenness of mineness in experience resists reduction to a contingent bundle of negatable representations.
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    Especially important for the Ausbildung or development of self-consciousness is the reminiscence of the past. For in this way one comes to see a difference between that center of past (psychic) conditions and current ones; hence all psychic conditions are recognized as accidental: the individual itself cannot be reduced to any one of them, and hence appears, in apperception, to stand forth as distinct from them (SW VI: 179). Thus, we come increasingly to see our selves as distinct from our exter
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