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Is the self just a remix?

Social Learning, Mirror Mimicry, Memes...

How much is unique in ones self and how much is just remixed? You know when you catch yourself being someone else, like when you walked and talked just like whoever was your teenage idol, or when you subconsciously pose like someone you know, or when you realize the memes coming out of your mouth were already in your episodic memories. At least shallow aspects of the self, like social communication, feels like a mashup of "content" from kins. Deeper levels of consciousness is beyond this topic, but perhaps the social brain, evolutionary very young, evolved to just remix others. Extrapolate this theory and it explains every phenomena you´ve ever experienced :) Like how everyone is sort of exactly the same...

So, are YOU a remix?

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Thanks Debra,
I´m a remix, and I liiiiike it!

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    Debra Smith 200+

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    Aug 23 2012: Of course we are alll 'JUST" a remix. No one in the universe is that exact same mix of ideas and thoughts. This is the wonder and the awe of it all. We are not disappointed that the whole universe is made up of the exact same elements - we marvel at each unique combinations that arrive at so many variations and potentialities. We need to start appreciating this in each individual. This is where all the hope and promise in the world comes from, in my opinion.
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