Reflective self-definition
Let’s just assume that you understand that you’re not defined by your reflection in the physical mirror, or at best that’s a limited definition of “me”.
Well… it turns out that there are other kinds of mirrors:
- Not the physical glass kind, though — there are various ways in which the human mind fabricates mirrors as it goes along.
- These are cognitive, psychological, perspective-switching processes in which the mind uses its experience, concepts, memories, and interpretive plumbing in a particular way to try to get a view of “the self.”
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