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Ideas for 'works', 'Unpublished Notebooks 1881-82' and 'Foundations of Geometry'

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16. Persons / E. Rejecting the Self / 4. Denial of the Self
We contain many minds, which fight for the 'I' of the mind [Nietzsche]
     Full Idea: Many minds are housed within humans like creatures of the sea - they battle one another for the mind 'I'.
     From: Friedrich Nietzsche (Unpublished Notebooks 1881-82 [1882], 4[207])
     A reaction: I am happy to use the word 'I' for the sense of central control of focus and choice, but there doesn's seem to be an actual organ of the Self, so it is a fiction, but one which reflects the general picture of what happens. I can pick a drive to foster.