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If you close one of your eyes, you can see your nose and your eyebrow and your upper lip. But notice how on the outer side of your vision, there's nothing obstructing the view. Evolution-wise, you wanted to have this bone structure around your eyes for protection, but at the same time, you wanted the maximum peripheral vision, right?

A face is a tool for survival. But at the same time we all have this idea that our face is who we are. When you imagine someone, you imagine their face. When you look at someone, you look at their face. Your passport has a photo of your face. But looking at the nose and eyebrow like this,

I can't help to not feel like I'm looking at my face. But if my face is who I am, am, then who is the one looking? Who am I? Or more specifically, where am I? Looking at my face like this, I feel like I'm peeking out from a window of an apartment building. You know, I can see the

facade and the balconies. I'm not the building. This whole thought experiment is making me feel I start to feel detached and derailed. I feel sick because I face the limits of the identity I've created to myself. Identity is made up in the mind Identity is how my mind sees who I am But it is not real It is not who I am I feel sick because I see a perspective to myself that my identity can

comprehend. I'll give you another example. If I say there's a person across the street, It sounds normal. But if I say there's a human across the street, it sounds like I'm talking about a wild animal, a foreign entity. But isn't it weird that it feels foreign to describe us with what we are?

This weirdness is a testimony to the fact that we are looking at other humans through societal identity. The humans that we meet have names and outfits and job titles. Those little bits of societal identity eventually turn the human into a person in our minds. But in our hearts, we are not persons and we are not foreign.