Residual self-image is the concept that individuals tend to think of themselves as projecting a certain physical appearance, or certain position of social entitlement, or lack thereof. The term was used at least as early as 1968, but was popularized in fiction by the Matrix series, where persons who existed in a digitally created world would subconsciously maintain the physical appearance that they had become accustomed to projecting.
— Wikipedia on Self-image
2012.04.26 Thursday ACHK
Feynman’s Blackboard, 3
You don’t truly understand it until you think it’s obvious.
— Chris Oliver
This is akin to how a society comes to understand something and why genius ideas sometimes take so long to become accepted. I believe “context” is the underlying principle here.
Arthur Schopenhauer said, “All truth passes through three stages: First, it is ridiculed; Second, it is violently opposed; Third, it is accepted as self-evident.”
If you present a truth to someone whom doesn’t have sufficient context for what you are saying, it may seem outrageous and ridiculous to them because the gap between their understanding and the insight you presenting is too great.
They would have to build up their understanding of the context around it until it expands to a point where they find a connection to what they already know. Then they can start to relate to it and eventually they may see it as self evident.
— espeed 254 days ago
— Hacker News
2012.04.26 Thursday ACHK
Windows, 3 | Copy Me, 4
這段改編自 2010 年 3 月 20 日的對話。
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怎樣為之「同一部」電腦呢？
假設你的電腦換了幾個零件，那就牽涉到 identity（身份）的問題。你的電腦應該視為「新的電腦」，還是「升級了的舊電腦」？換句話說，改裝以後，你的電腦應該視作「另一部電腦」，還是「原本的電腦」呢？
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（安：那要視乎 換了多少東西 和 換了什麼東西。例如，如果你的電腦只是換了 keyboard（鍵盤），那就應該算是「同一部」電腦。如果你的電腦連 CPU（central processing unit 中央處理器）都換掉，那就應該算是「另一部」電腦。）
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那樣，如果我的電腦除了 CPU 以外，其他全部東西都換掉呢？你還叫它做「同一部」電腦嗎？
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（安：那是灰色地帶，沒有一個絕對的標準答案。）
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這就是重點是：那沒有一個，一定的標籤方法。那要視乎上文下理。相對於一個情境之下，哪一個標籤比較方便，就用那一個。
自我身份問題，有同樣的特性。如果我問「怎樣為之『同一個』自我」，雖然有一個，相對客觀的標籤方法，但都沒有一個，百份之一百，絕對客觀的標準答案。
— Me@2012.04.26
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