What Is The Identity's Role?

[Orange]

So yes, what is it exactly? What are your thoughts? 

[Deep]

To be 

[Bob84]

Survival.

[Neo]

It just is. Technically survival is almost right, but it wasn't given the "goal" of survival. Just everything else didn't survive and left things that had the *tendency* to survive for now. (We may annihilate ourselves later).

Some early "self concept" was probably extremely useful in survival in other species we evolved from.

Edited December 3, 2016 by Neo

[Prabhaker]

@Orange Identity is a need; it is a social need, it is a social by-product. 

Society is concerned with itself, and that's how it should be.

      They are not concerned that you should become a self-knower. They are concerned that you should become an efficient part in the mechanism of the society. You should fit into the pattern. 

[Leo Gura]

@Orange  Without an identity, you couldn't be you!

Think about it.

What would you be without this particular constellation of traits and boundaries you call "me"?

When I had my deepest mushroom trip, I lost my identity so much that I stopped existing as a "thing". By the end of that trip, I was begging to return to be "something". I couldn't handle being unlimited and undefined. It's too weird. And so I came back as Leo. Grateful to be little old familiar Leo.

How would you know yourself if not by your limitations?

It's one thing to philosophize about that. It's a totally nother thing to actually become unlimited. It's scary as fuck.

[abrakamowse]

Oneness needs to create an identity to experience duality.