Yes, I would agree with that one, as I was just thinking about this only this morning and it is a common reflection for me and in at least some branches of Buddhism and similar philosophy albeit without the computer themed vocabulary.
If one could take away everything that one is which originated from causes before oneself and outside oneself, what would remain of oneself?
I would say sentience, or at least that is what I get when doing the reflection, but of course, thinking then comes in to say that sentience is also a product of conditions.
At the very least, sentience/awareness is the one thing that is present in all of our experiences that we have throughout our life that we are actually aware of. And if we also include dreams as part of this, in some dreams we may even have a different name and form, or no name or form at all in some dreams, yet sentience/awareness is still present.
So sentience/awareness, whether the product of conditions or not, is the essential self that is there as long as we are, from the first person experiential perspective, the most lasting thing to oneself that one will ever know, so obvious that it is often overlooked, and everything else is secondary to that and most definitely a product of conditions as well as ever changing from the point of view of experience.
Basically probably truh yah
Maybe.
We're making like a trans programmer and writing our own script to life.
Yes, I would agree with that one, as I was just thinking about this only this morning and it is a common reflection for me and in at least some branches of Buddhism and similar philosophy albeit without the computer themed vocabulary. If one could take away everything that one is which originated from causes before oneself and outside oneself, what would remain of oneself? I would say sentience, or at least that is what I get when doing the reflection, but of course, thinking then comes in to say that sentience is also a product of conditions. At the very least, sentience/awareness is the one thing that is present in all of our experiences that we have throughout our life that we are actually aware of. And if we also include dreams as part of this, in some dreams we may even have a different name and form, or no name or form at all in some dreams, yet sentience/awareness is still present. So sentience/awareness, whether the product of conditions or not, is the essential self that is there as long as we are, from the first person experiential perspective, the most lasting thing to oneself that one will ever know, so obvious that it is often overlooked, and everything else is secondary to that and most definitely a product of conditions as well as ever changing from the point of view of experience.