The Self as Perspectival Consciousness: Advaita Vedānta and the Elusive Sense of Self
Journal of Consciousness Studies June 1, 2025 Charles Fink
The sense of self is a ubiquitous feature of consciousness experience, but it is also notoriously elusive. It is elusive, I argue, because although I experience myself as a being in the world, this is not what I am. But how can it be that I exist even though there is nothing that I am? This is the paradox of self-identity and, in this paper, I explore how the paradox is solved by Advaita...