Who is the other?

 

Anthony Cohen once stated that, when determining how others think “we devise­­d systems for constructing other people’s consciousness, without enquiring too closely into their veracity” The truth be known? Cohen is right, when I try to think of how another person thinks I have taken into account the way my thought is structured.  It is important to realize that we make ourselves what we are in relationship to others, be it family, friends, or acquaintances.  We are continually making the self (see Alan Watts, Irving Goffman, or Jacques Lacan for more on this) based on the representations of ourselves that we have or that the world gives us.  We see the world through our eyes which are the receivers from the messenger who returns the verdict (that which we come to believe) to the judge (our consciousness) The commotion in the jury room (the recesses of our mind or our unconscious) is completely based on the weighing of the evidence which is rendered fact by the jury (that which decides what we perceive) whom we believe has done their job. For a explanation of this process see Consciousness Explained by William Dennett. In the jury room are a number of players, our senses, for sure. But, as Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guatarri have expressed, within us there are “one or many wolves.” One has to ask, when making a judgment about others, there are a multitude of motives, what are ours? When you are about to make a determination about the story of another’s life just remember all the determinants at play, and pray man, pray.  

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