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Final-Fan on 07 March 2008
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Sqrl said:

I really think you underestimate the importance of a name.

To realise that you need a name is to ponder "I am".

To realise that you and your species need names is to ponder "We are".

Those concepts seem trivial to us but that is the absolute foundation of self-awareness...if not its definition.

Zero expertise over here, but I have to register my skepticism.  Seems to me that a name is a way for other individuals to identify yourself.  You know who you are with no need for a name as such.  I would think that naming oneself would be concurrent with or after naming others, either as in "hey, I need one too!" or being given one by others. 

Of course, none of that undermines your argument.  Obviously naming oneself is a sign of self-awareness, but I would think that it's ALSO a sign of awareness of others. 

Am I wrong? 

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