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July 17, 2015 - Clif High
01:30
20150717 – Clif High Audio #28
# waking up unique identity true self consciousness drug use identity i ness names as labels selfhood selfness sleep deprivation

Clif High challenges the listener's identity, asserting that names are merely birth labels while the true self exists as a unique "I-ness" distinct from all others. He argues this inherent selfness is confirmed only when consciousness returns after sleep, deprivation, or drug use, proving that naming this being is impossible and any attempt is fundamentally wrong. Ultimately, the inquiry reveals that identity transcends physical forms and linguistic definitions, suggesting the true self was never present in the body at birth. [Automatically generated summary]

Transcriber: nvidia/parakeet-tdt-0.6b-v2, and large-v3-turbo
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The Question of Identity 00:01:29
It starts with a very strange question.
What is your name?
Whatever you respond, you're wrong.
Whatever you respond is the appellation, the label that was given to the body you're in at the time it was born.
You were not in that body at that time.
So what is your name?
Whatever you respond is wrong.
But you know you exist, unique, a self, an I-ness, a selfness, unique among all other I's and self-nesses anywhere in the universe.
You know this when you go to sleep.
You know this when you waken to the body.
When you waken to your I-ness, when consciousness returns from whatever lack, sleep, deprivation, drugs, doesn't matter, when you return, there is always I-ness and selfness.
What is its name?
What is the name of the I-ness, the self-ness, of the being that is hearing these words?
Whatever you respond is wrong.
It all starts with a rather strange question.
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