Who am I?
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For Socrates and Plato, ’I’ as in any object of knowledge is beyond all appearances in a
realm of utter nonsense (The Symposium).


Since one can’t have it as Delphi, Socrates, a nd Plato would have it, how could or would one have it? As I get it, my self appears in my experience as a body of appearances. So my self, insofar as I ‘know’ or am acquainted with, it is an analytic of experience. To Socrates/Plato ‘I’ cannot be known within experience. But I am acquainted with my self only in experience as a growing, changing being. In relation ton experience in general, an acquaintance of mine characterized the brain as a multi-media studio serving the mind as its phantom captain. As I have said, ‘I’(myself) am a growing changing being subject to my on-going analysis of much complexity.which is not cut and dried.

As Judge Learned Hand said (Proceedings in memory of Mr. Justice Brandeis)

“If a man’s life, like a piece of tapestry, is
made up of many strands which interwoven
make a pattern, to separate a single one and
look at it alone not only destroys the whole but
gives the strand itself a false value.”