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I was working a Su Doko recently when a thought occurred to us. That's right, I said us. If that doesn't make sense to you, don't sweat it 'cause by the end of this philosiphication you will. Or maybe you won't. Maybe you will only be more confused. Well, if you do become cofused, be not dismayed 'cause confusion, whether or not you realize it, is the path to knowledge ... but that's for another philosiphication.
Back to Su doko. I have noticed that when I work puzzles, math problems, or otherwise engage in the exercise of the logical functions of my mind that my inner voice often, if not always uses the pronouns "we", "us", and "our" rather than "I", "me", and "my". Now I have been at least semi-aware of this before, but had never paused to ask why this is ... until today. You may also have experienced this and, like me, you probably have hardly been aware of it or have semi-conciously dismissed it as frivolous and meaningless, but is it? Or is there more? Is there a reason for this? I believe I have an answer. Read on, my friend.
Now, when we refer to our own selves using the pronouns "I", "me", and "my", to what are we referring? Are we referring to our physical bodies? Our soul? The whole package? Clearly, the answer may vary from person to person and from circumstance to circumstance, but in this instance I am referring to your soul or that inner essence or whatever may be the source of that inner voice we're all familiar with.
How many of there is me? How many of you are there? It is probably safe to assume that the vast majority of folks would answer "one" to that question, if they bothered to answer such a seemingly silly question at all. Well, what if there is more of me and more of you than one? And I'm not talking about cloning ... I'm not talking about the physical here. Could it be that the reason my inner voice uses "we" and "us" in certain scenarios is that there is more than one of me? Could there be more than one of you ... your essence, your soul, or whatever you want to call it?
Discard your preconceptions for a moment and ponder this. What reason is there to believe that I only have one soul? I have one physical body with one brain and one heart, but is that grounds to assume that I also only have one soul?
Here is another peculiarity. My inner voice does not always use plural pronouns. There may be other circumstances under which it does that I cannot recall at the moment, but I can think of times where my inner voice uses singulars. In fact, as I write these words narrated by my inner voice, I have not once thought in a plural sense. What does that mean? Could it mean that inside my being, it only takes one of me to write and philosophize, but it takes a team of me to perform logic, math, and the like?
Consider schizophrenia and other multiple personality disorders for a moment. Could these disorders be evidence for the notion that we all have multiple souls? Perhaps the disorder in schizophrenia isn't that multiple personalities exists within this one person, but that these multiple personalities that exist within all of us have somehow lost their ability to work in a cohesive manner.
I could develop this idea further, but I think you get the point by now. And besides, the one of me responsible for this post is growing tired of writing. |
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Me, Myself, and ... Us? New 
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