How old is the "I"? How/why did it come into existence - and how to replace it

[Raze]

I found two interesting blog posts on the origin of the ego and concepts of replacing it

http://happinessbeyondthought.blogspot.com/2013/02/how-old-is-i-howwhy-did-it-come-into.html

http://happinessbeyondthought.blogspot.com/2017/04/can-we-survive-wour-current-os-and.html

http://happinessbeyondthought.blogspot.com/2015/05/uninstall-your-outdated-os-1-upload.html

 

[VeganAwake]

First and foremost, I is not good or bad... it's unreal. And that which is unreal cannot be replaced... simply because there is nothing there in which could be replaced.

I starts around the age of 3 and builds and builds and builds upon itself but it's an illusion.

Sometimes when I is looked at very closely it dissolves itself.

Either way it does not matter at all.

But of course I doesn't see it that way. 

 

[Consilience]

9 minutes ago, VeganAwake said:

First and foremost, I is not good or bad... it's unreal. And that which is unreal cannot be replaced... simply because there is nothing there in which could be replaced.

I starts around the age of 3 and builds and builds and builds upon itself but it's an illusion.

Sometimes when I is looked at very closely it dissolves itself.

Either way it does not matter at all.

But of course I doesn't see it that way. 

 

This.

The “trying” to dissolve it is itself more I. The I will only dissolve if and only if it is seen that both a state of I and non-I are both equivalent. When the preference for one state over another fades away, when the underlying (un)reality of both are seen, then “one” knows “progress” is being made, precisely because the attempts at progress are seen through. Precisely because progress is itself seen through.

Yet damn bro, try try try. You have absolutely no choice in the matter. 

Edited May 15, 2021 by Consilience

[Flowerfaeiry]

I matters

[snowyowl]

The I is the self-reflective or self-referencing ability of thought. It's part of our survival strategy but is just a thought so never had separate existence, only apparent existence. It can't find itself in the same way as a mirror can't reflect itself, or a finger point to itself. How old this ability is, is sometime in evolutionary history perhaps several million years, maybe longer if some other species can do it too. 

[VeganAwake]

8 hours ago, Flowerfaeiry said:

I matters

Negative,

It simply never existed so how could it matter