Blog 9

I definitely agreed and disagreed to different point that Galen Strawson made in the piece, I am not a story. While reading his piece I took my knowledge from the Life’s Stories by Julie Beck and used some of that to base my opinion of his article. In the article, Strawson disagrees with multiple novelists when describing a self narrative. He argues that some people may be able to create a self narrative, but that the majority of the population do not do this. One piece of evidence that he uses is that life happens and is remembered in bursts of dislocation, that makes it impossible to create a coherent story. I do see where Strawson is coming from, but I believe that if people are creating self narratives than they are taking what they think is the most important parts and put them together. Strawson also talks about how people with argue against him with the argument that people like him create these narratives unconsciously. I agree with these statements as I have learned in my psychology class that most actions and things happening within a human are being done unconsciously. I think we learned that only ten percent of the things going on at a human at one point in time is consciously known. I do agree with Strawson when he talks about the different selves that a person has. I like to think of it as, we have different people we are when we are around certain people and in certain circumstances. A person acts very different when talking to their professor during a lecture compared to when they are talking with their friends. People will even act a certain way around different people if they are trying to get them to like them or to impress them. I think I can be hard to find just one self identity or one way to describe yourself as there are so many different sides to a person that they can all become mixed together and mixed up.