Aide-Mémoire 6 - Ebryonic Biases; The Greatest Limits of Identity

(My) Mind-Body Dualism of Identity We can’t look within without the borders of the physical.

This is (probably) an (incomplete) idea, arguing that physical presentation is not (just) a chosen translation of individual identity, but a result of a predetermined physical guide enabling a finite identification (process) in an otherwise incomprehensible immaterial chaos.

I feel strongly about the coherence between form and content; body and mind. (Un)consciously, we all try our best to present ourselves in a way that’s in line with whom we think we are as a person. Yet, in some corporal aspects we have no control. My hands, face, and eyes belong to me but are not necessarily who I am, right? When people describe themselves, they often use aspects within the physical realm of existence, referring to characteristics of their body or actions, overlooking and possibly ignoring the identity to – if even possible – whom these somatic characteristics belong. It’s a useful and relatively easy method of self-description as most bodily characteristics, expectedly and supposedly, reflect whom- or whatever they’re referring to. (Sometimes) I think that these tangible, judgeable features exist purely to categorize, and therefore simplify, the processes of identification, as within the reality of the chaotic untouchable there only exists fantasy (call it consciousness). This seductive contradiction is the source of creativity, transforming the uncategorizable all-encompassing emptiness into graspable actuality. The involuntary and uncontrollable birth of our physically limited characteristics is our initial and greatest bias in the attempt of constructing our individual identity from indifferent general chaos. Only when we’re truly aware of this embryonic dependency, and its effect on our creativity, can we know that these physical limits don’t inhibit, but guide us to an impossibly all-encompassing, yet honest (re)presentation of identity. If you struggle with identity, approach it through your predetermined and involuntary physical biases, as these ensure the closest experience to who you are in the realm of non-existence.

Embryonic Biases: Limiting Identity within the Non-Existence, Creativity out of Chaos, Fantasizing Consciousness.