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What are you? Do you know or do you merely assume things about your being so as to not have to inquire too deeply or experience too vastly? We could of course keep these questions impersonal and ask, what is the Self, as if the Self, You or I, were merely an abstract object. A “self” can be a kind of objective entity for the material brain to think about, in which case it can be easily construed to be a common epiphenomenon of the neurocognitive activity of human bodies. When the question pertains to you and your relationship with your own supposedly “thinking” material brain, you can feel the issue more personally as having something existential and not merely ontological. So let’s ask You:

What are you?

Your material brain is an object within your body, which is also an object. Through these organic objects of yours you are able to have cognitive sensory experiences of surrounding physical objects. Your body is your most intimate and persistent objective neurocognitive sensory experience for You, the Dualistic Subject, who has Consciousness as a gap between You and your objects of your world. Consciousness through the body and its brain is a phenomenal timespace subject-object relation. On the objective pole, consciousness is dualistic and phenomenological, but going within from your body to your selfhood as a subject has no apparent gap or inner space, so it seems to be nondual as if you are your body. Object is a phenomenal duality; subject is a noumenal nonduality or it is not a pure and real subject or self.

A body is made of organic matter, but a self is not made of any kind of matter, for only a phenomenal object can be made of matter. A noumenal subject is immaterial and immeasurable by any form of material instrumentation.