1-3 When you come across someone for the first time, there is a high probability you would exchange some surface level information with one another to establish recognition and identification. Then, the individuals concerned would first perceive, comprehend, and categorize this knowledge and its associations. The concerning part here is that people usually miss the point that this ‘knowledge’ of the ‘self’ we all ‘self-identify’ with comes from an ‘absorbed knowledge’ from people other than the ‘self’ in the first place since someone’s first incarnation or birth. You were first given a 'name', i.e. a 'label', and taught some accumulated knowledge of 'human experience' or 'narrative' which evolved with many different 'labels' or 'tags' with 'form-meaning' correspondences.
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