Who am I?

My sense of self is a linear continuum that extends from deep within myself, up through my being and outside myself to my physical body and social environment and further extending out to encompass geography as well as history because it all is dynamic with a time dimension.

The two directions of this line extend opposite to each other from the central point that is the unity of my total self, but nothing that is not myself.  Each presents a one-sided image of the self, with the two sides being like the two sides of the body or the brain, mirror images of each other, though each independent and not identical in detail.

This line that transcends many orders of magnitude is not an even progression.  Like many physical phenomena, such as the banding of rocks round stars to form planets or the quantum leaps of tiny particles, this dimension has Energy Levels that resonate and form patterns and structures.  These are the various orders of magnitude at which Science finds evidence of a unified structure, usually with random relevance to energy levels at remote orders of magnitude.

Being a bi-directional dimension, perhaps it is better called a bimension.  So many phenomena can approach zero from either direction, but find on close proximity, that when unity is passed in a reducing direction, what might have appeared as a steep decline suddenly levels off and reduces as a decreasing rate so it is impossible to reach zero from either direction in a mathematically asymptotic balanced infinitude.

These two selves are a mental construct, and the phenomenon is probably valid for everyone.  We have an inner self and we have a public self.  Who we are as entities in the world, like the public persona of famous people, is one self and our private lives, especially as lived in our heads, perhaps in the dark, at night both awake and asleep is another.  It might perhaps be observed that most people are raised from childhood to bring these into unison and it is the education system’s role to direct how they develop with age.  When these two selves diverge, some forms of mental illness can ensue.  However, it is wrong to suggest everyone with this split sense of self is mentally ill, because it is almost certainly universal and normal and natural. 

This is not to be confused with other linear measurements of human activity, such as Political left and right, religiosity, optimism, wealth or income.  

Naum/Norm