“Self as an interface” feels weird. For me, self has connotations with being unique, internal, and usually not intentionally morphed. Here I feel like you’re talking about intentionally shaping your external interface according to the environment (including who you are interacting with), which goes against the three connotations I have with the word self.
I don’t have a better word suggestion though. I have been thinking about roles as interfaces in a non-telepathic context, but “roles as interfaces” seem subtly different from your idea.
I wonder if the right term here is “persona” or “personality”. The mask your self wears to be a person in a social setting.
Roles strike me as different. I think of those as being about where you are and which character you’re playing in the social web. Your persona is more like how you’re playing whichever role you have.
Maybe I should have left the self-aspect out of this post. I will elaborate on the connection in a later post. I feels quite intuitive for me though. The self sure feels unique and internal. But maybe you can agree that it does change or at least that things associated with it change in ways we can’t seem to control—which is the point that I am making. It enables commitments.
“Self as an interface” feels weird. For me, self has connotations with being unique, internal, and usually not intentionally morphed. Here I feel like you’re talking about intentionally shaping your external interface according to the environment (including who you are interacting with), which goes against the three connotations I have with the word self.
I don’t have a better word suggestion though. I have been thinking about roles as interfaces in a non-telepathic context, but “roles as interfaces” seem subtly different from your idea.
I wonder if the right term here is “persona” or “personality”. The mask your self wears to be a person in a social setting.
Roles strike me as different. I think of those as being about where you are and which character you’re playing in the social web. Your persona is more like how you’re playing whichever role you have.
Maybe I should have left the self-aspect out of this post. I will elaborate on the connection in a later post. I feels quite intuitive for me though. The self sure feels unique and internal. But maybe you can agree that it does change or at least that things associated with it change in ways we can’t seem to control—which is the point that I am making. It enables commitments.