You know roughly where your body is at all times, but where in it is your “self”?
Your center of mass is around the solar plexus, yet that doesn’t seem to universally be where people feel the center of their self to be. Most people feel they “are” right behind their eyes, probably in the brain.
Sometimes people have out-of-body experiences, completely changing their anchor for a while.
When pointing at themselves, people tend to point a thumb at their chest or face. Do they feel differently about it, or is it just convenience?
Are you a body with a head full of thinking goop and sensors on top, or are you a head sitting on a body?
And wherever you feel you are, have you felt different at any time? Can you change it?
Personally, I can’t separate the feeling of self from my vision, so “I” am directly behind my eyeballs and I can’t change it.
I’m most of my self. There’s a small part with severe nerve damage that, well, it’s something else. I’ve given it a name. It kind of has a mind of its own. We exist.
I feel like I’m two. Idk if it’s two half brains or what. But sometimes one takes over or the other. One is happy and the other is quiet, focused.
I just have this little annoying parasite clinging to my side. We get along most of the time but not all of it. I’d tell you his name but that’d be doxxing myself. All I’ll say is I named him after a Muppet.
Funniest times are when he chimes in on conversations and my wife tells him to shut up. Dude can get kinda loud.