Self awareness, the "I"

Moreland addresses the concept of self awareness, of the “I:”

“. . . through self-awareness, one gains an awareness of the fact that “I” who was and is (and will be) present as the owner of all the [life] experiences. . . . These two facts - “I” am the owner of self-experience, and “I” am an enduring self who exists as the same possessor of all self-experience through time - show that a person is not identical to his experiences. Self (or “I”) is the thing that has them. In short, “I” is a mental substance. Only a single enduring self can relate and unify experiences, a fact that property dualists and physicalists cannot adequately account for or explain away.”

Moreland’s statements give compelling support to the immateriality of the human soul, the mind, the self, the “I.”

Stan Lennard