The id is the reality you experience. The super-ego is the reality you perceive. The ego is the filter of reality.
The ego interprets and transforms reality around itself.
The id and super-ego are indistinguishable when the ego is absent. The id and super-ego can be equivalent if the ego is present, but they still exist as two observable and separate entities.
The ego also acts as a hard-drive for our experiences of reality. Memory is just the ego recording specific elements of experiences of reality that then it is able to recreate even without experiencing that specific part of reality. This is done so the ego can construct a reality much larger than the one that it is currently experiencing.
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R
So the ego is basically just a bitchhhh? What’s good about it lol
N
The self or person exists in the ego. Awareness and consciousness are properties of the ego. And though this is a whole different conversation, free will only exists in the ego since free will comes from both awareness and consciousness.
Also, the transformative nature of the ego’s filter is what creates meaning out of arbitrary data/information.
R
So the ego gives us the will to live? Lol
N
I think it’s better said that what we consider life can only exist in a reality from the perspective of an ego, so the will to live would only exist in the place that life exists.
R
So then does that mean without an ego you obtain Enlightenment? Or are you just saying that people need ego to live?
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So if life exists and we don’t have ego translating are we then just experiencing an objective reality? And does that mean everyone would experience the same thing at that point?
N
I think it comes down to how you define “life,” “enlightenment,” “objective reality,” etc.
Before I answer your questions, I’m gonna define some things, and then see if that answers anything/changes your questions.
First, “life” in its most simplistic definition is anything that can die or end. Reality does not end, but an ego can end. An ego creates life by its nature that it can die.
For “enlightenment,” I’d describe it as a state of being that is obtained when one is experiencing the truth. Getting rid of the ego is one way to attain enlightenment, because when the ego is gone, the super-ego and I’d collapse in on each other to form one uniform entity. Enlightenment is achieved by the fact that only the truth exists.
However, I believe it’s possible for an ego to achieve enlightenment, if on a lesser scale. An ego can experience enlightenment when its perception of reality is equivalent the actual experience of reality. Truth is basically anything that travels through the filter of the ego unchanged
And lastly, as for “objective reality,” that idea is more of a tangent discussion. To give a super shortened explanation, “objective reality” is the reality shared between 2 or more egos.
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