What do you primarily identify with?

[Gargantuan]

Curious where people actually locate their primary sense of self.
This forum talks about identity constantly, usually (and unsurprisingly) through looks, but most people never stop to check where their identity actually sits.

 

[Deleted member 280162]

Nothing, I have no sense of self unironically

 

[Deleted member 300207]

Good question man

 

[Anjixss]

It’s between intellect and conciousness, the only thing I can really self identify with is high metacognition, my personality shifts very often and I don’t have anything I identify with strongly other than my ability to view my own thinking, so mostly my identity is internal, my external identity shifts too much for me to resonate with it

 

[GonorrhoeaGobbler]

Humans are shapes, even if there is a sole you are nothing without your senses, this is what it means to be human

 

[fr0st]

Curious where people actually locate their primary sense of self.
This forum talks about identity constantly, usually (and unsurprisingly) through looks, but most people never stop to check where their identity actually sits.

My identity doesnt fit into any categories I am not even remotely intelligence enough to fully understand the complexities of consciousness my main thinking mechanism is my penis because thats what i think with the most

 

[fr0st]

Humans are shapes, even if there is a sole you are nothing without your senses, this is what it means to be human

You literally just made fun of someone for making a reddit thread then you proceed to say the most reddit thing ever

 

[Deleted member 240873]

Some of everything ig

 

[PrettyLights]

i am a heterosexual

 

[GonorrhoeaGobbler]

You literally just made fun of someone for making a reddit thread then you proceed to say the most reddit thing ever

Really ?
Never compare me to those scum again

 

[tuberculosisinmybal]

Curious where people actually locate their primary sense of self.
This forum talks about identity constantly, usually (and unsurprisingly) through looks, but most people never stop to check where their identity actually sits.

i identify as faggot sub5 incel

 

[Elf]

Curious where people actually locate their primary sense of self.
This forum talks about identity constantly, usually (and unsurprisingly) through looks, but most people never stop to check where their identity actually sits.

I like to believe I think about everything even trivial stuff more than others but I’m most likely wrong.

 

[Deleted member 121340]

My personality, thoughts, consciousness, and intellect are all just my brain.
My outer body is nothing but a vessel. My real true self is my brain.

 

[Laqi]

Curious where people actually locate their primary sense of self.
This forum talks about identity constantly, usually (and unsurprisingly) through looks, but most people never stop to check where their identity actually sits.

None of these
Identity of mine lies down into my current self, I m nothing more then a man and my identity only exist within my consciousness
but even then it's not something I identify by.

IF you do mean social and with people, primarily I identify by

Intellect / intelligence​

 

[GonorrhoeaGobbler]

Hard to tell I'm very detached from my body, mind and from society.
My identity is prob a mix of body and "sole"
I obviously don't care a about role in soyciety, I'm having trouble defining all of the options

 

[TechnoBoss]

Curious where people actually locate their primary sense of self.
This forum talks about identity constantly, usually (and unsurprisingly) through looks, but most people never stop to check where their identity actually sits.

Interesting question. Can you pick an option in your poll? I'd love to see what you identify with/as the most.

 

[vishal24.karukkuvel]

i identify as faggot sub5 incel

We love you bro

 

[Daddy's Home]

Consciousness / awareness itself and Thoughts / inner narrative

 

[Gargantuan]

Interesting question. Can you pick an option in your poll? I'd love to see what you identify with/as the most.

For me, it’s consciousness beyond a shadow of a doubt.

I never used to think about these things, until I realised that I can observe all of the other variables change.
The body is never the same, as every cell replaces itself, moods always shift, opinions evolve, and thoughts come and go without me choosing them. Made me think that anything I can watch fluctuate ultimately can’t be what I am.

The only variable that doesn’t change is the fact that I’m aware of all of it. The awareness itself remains constant, while everything else orbits it.
Once I noticed that everything is downstream from consciousness, it changed my whole perspective.

Ofc all of the other variables still matter as well, but they feel more like interfaces rather than the core layer to me.

 

[Deleted member 276814]

Curious where people actually locate their primary sense of self.
This forum talks about identity constantly, usually (and unsurprisingly) through looks, but most people never stop to check where their identity actually sits.

All of them

 

[Deleted member 159029]

Curious where people actually locate their primary sense of self.
This forum talks about identity constantly, usually (and unsurprisingly) through looks, but most people never stop to check where their identity actually sits.

why no multiple choice, i wanna check both conciousness and thoughts

 

[Deleted member 20890]

Thoughts/inner self

Consciousness and awareness are vague and don’t show who someone truly is like thoughts do.

 

[TechnoBoss]

For me, it’s consciousness beyond a shadow of a doubt.

I never used to think about these things, until I realised that I can observe all of the other variables change.
The body is never the same, as every cell replaces itself, moods always shift, opinions evolve, and thoughts come and go without me choosing them. Made me think that anything I can watch fluctuate ultimately can’t be what I am.

The only variable that doesn’t change is the fact that I’m aware of all of it. The awareness itself remains constant, while everything else orbits it.
Once I noticed that everything is downstream from consciousness, it changed my whole perspective.

Ofc all of the other variables still matter as well, but they feel more like interfaces rather than the core layer to me.

These are all pretty introspective thoughts. I've noticed how everything can change, as you said, but I've also never stayed at the same level of "consciousness" my entire life. As you get experience going through life, your brain absorbs all this new information and makes changes, for better or for worse. I feel like I've become more conscious over time. I don't know how to quantify consciousness, though.

Ofc all of the other variables still matter as well, but they feel more like interfaces rather than the core layer to me.

What did you mean by this?

 

[Gargantuan]

These are all pretty introspective thoughts. I've noticed how everything can change, as you said, but I've also never stayed at the same level of "consciousness" my entire life. As you get experience going through life, your brain absorbs all this new information and makes changes, for better or for worse. I feel like I've become more conscious over time. I don't know how to quantify consciousness, though.

I agree with you, my clarity within consciousness has also developed, although I mostly classify that as the content within consciousness, namely awareness, self-reflection, emotional regulation, pattern recognition, insight, etc.

In that sense, you absolutely can become “more conscious” as you accumulate experience and reduce blind spots.

What did you mean by this?

By interfaces, I mean layers you operate through, not what you fundamentally are.

The body is a biological interface, personality is a social interface, and thoughts are a narrative interface.
They’re real, useful, and they matter in day-to-day life, but they feel more like tools or lenses than the underlying constant.

Consciousness feels like the core layer because it’s the only thing present regardless of which interface is active. You can change your body, accentuate parts of your personality, lose confidence, gain insight, or feel “less conscious”, but there is still awareness of all of that happening.

 

[Gargantuan]

Thoughts/inner self

Consciousness and awareness are vague and don’t show who someone truly is like thoughts do.

I get the reasoning here since thoughts feel concrete as they’re loud and feel present, but I don't believe they’re fundamental.
If thoughts showed who you truly are, then wouldn't you become a different self every time your mood, beliefs, or inner dialogue changed?

You can observe a thought arise, contradict it, suppress it, dissolve it or do whatever, which means it can’t be the observer itself.
Thoughts are content, but awareness is the context in which they appear.

Consciousness isn’t really vague, it’s just upstream of everything else. But I will say that it is harder to notice because it doesn’t change, while thoughts constantly do.

 

[Whatever]

This is a good question. I would say for most of my life it’s been consciousness, but as I’ve gotten older it’s increasingly been looks/body as I’ve found that to give me grounding. Growing up I was very disembodied and anhedonic and this caused problems, now I do everything I can to align myself on all levels.

 

[DrunkenSailor]

I have no idea what this means

 

[Fridx]

Curious where people actually locate their primary sense of self.
This forum talks about identity constantly, usually (and unsurprisingly) through looks, but most people never stop to check where their identity actually sits.

Sports

 

[Deleted member 19325]

what girls notice is how massive my cock and how white it looks

bwc mogs yall

 

[BigBallsLarry]

Curious where people actually locate their primary sense of self.
This forum talks about identity constantly, usually (and unsurprisingly) through looks, but most people never stop to check where their identity actually sits.

Personality for sure.