ℑ “You and I are mirages who perceive themselves, and the sole magical machinery behind the scenes is perception — the triggering, by huge flows of raw data, of a tiny set of symbols that stand for abstract regularities in the world. Douglas Hofstader, “I am a Strange Loop”
The idea of ego stresses our sense of duality and torture, making us believe that we can more easily grasp the ego by giving it a name that is not “I”. Identify the ennemy, the virus. But isn’t the “I” ego’s supreme disguise? Let’s have an eye on this tricky “I”.