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    It is not the case that The ego is a representational complex from which all component parts may be negated

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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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    Reason for 2 of 2
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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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    • 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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