Can one see self?

Is it possible to see self?  When gazing into the mirror at the "old bastard" staring back at you, do you in fact see self or just a representation of self?  I ask this because what you see in the mirror is backwards.  Wear a shirt with words and then question the image and the likelihood of seeing self.  Even your photos are not in line with self.  How then might you see self?  Take a photo and cut out eyeholes and then look through the holes.  You will then line up with your photo.  If you do not, your photo represents a stranger whose hand you can shake as the image opposes self.  Ergo, where dose self exist and can you see self in total?

A photo captures the left and right of a person and will illustrate something going on on either side in our asymmetrical selves. Your left may be smiling while your right may be frowning or vice versa. Nonetheless, we think we see symmetry in the whole. Where lies a direct image of self? Does one exist? Is the self viewable with the anatomical? If so, how do we see so that it is not opposing self? Our eyes only allow light in. The process of deciphering the information lies in the back of our skull and is upside down. Since this is the case, do we actually see self when looking outside self?

If you could, and it will be hard or near impossible, please define yourself at any given moment in time and present the ongoing variables. Personally, I can't do it.

The you looking into a smaller mirror looking into another mirror presents an image in my mind of infinity. It is a lovely picture.

Marx or Bourdieu would have said: "Bourgeois outfit and behavior, because you are posing!" Foucault would have said: "I see creepy things..." It's like you go to a bar, drink to much and than going to the toilet...seeing yourself in the mirror...first question to yourself: "WHO's THAT?" After that question you throw the mirror beside the washbowl and say: "Thank God!" ~ Thanks for the laugh. It brings to mind the Monty Python soccer game.

Since a reflected image of self is both upside down and backwards, how can we possibly see ourselves? Again, a photo cannot depict self as it opposes us like a stranger in that we could shake our own hand.

How does a blind person see themselves without a faulty image to rely on?

You are not a "scholastic asshole." You present a good argument backed by a citation of sorts to which I agree. One cannot see self as self is not external. However, the external is required for sense input, digestion of input, and output. I had long ago pondered a suspended mind, however, mind is not tangible and, therefore, is something that cannot be experimentally fucked with.

We are the contents of the cup in a non-religious fashion despite the cup being a prerequisite to being.

When is "then" indeed. The time issue is up for grabs. Have you traveled your memory lately?

Do think our typewritten words offer up a fuzzy conjured image in place of an avatar? If so, what do you think your avatar would look like? Or perhaps it would not look like anything at all. Perhaps it just is.~ Arachne ~ September 24, 2014 in the a.m.