An ego is just another way of talking about the self and what make’s one go. Some like to add various drives, dives or boating metaphors to the behavioral acoutrments of the human experience and it has a certain quality of elegant verbiage to it. It is the ego (not the id-iot which is said to be libbydo and conservido partners) that needs a warm fuzzy social blanket about things, or the blood lust top slaughter Wall Street crooks building up bad debts for taxpayers to pay off so they cant have health care and must writhe in agony in the ditch as the Bentley’s drive past with 20 million dollar annual salaried plus bonuses C.E.O.’s of banks and mortgage firms dumping the debt).
An ego referred to the sense of self personalized. A book titled ‘The Greek Origins of European Thought’ noted that many nouns originally were verbs that were transformed into references as objects over time. That process is common in language evolution.
Is it egoistical to understand the ego as an authority? Within a phenomenon of mind analysis of subjective epistemology cannot provide certain knowledge. Ego may be thought of as an action verb referring to what motivates some individual to go. Perhaps the definition might be left at that, and not considered further as to why a individual responds to certain sense stimuli differently and with different emotions and objectives.
An ego referred to the sense of self personalized. A book titled ‘The Greek Origins of European Thought’ noted that many nouns originally were verbs that were transformed into references as objects over time. That process is common in language evolution.
The sense of self may be a referent itself to the experience of being a mind in a cell-hence ‘the self’, while the e-go may simply refer to that which is motivated to go, to move or to accomplish anything at all.
E-motions may have the same verbal context as things that cause one to move, or be ‘moved’ meaning emotionally.
Interestingly advanced societies with advanced abstract concepts aplenty often lose touch with the original contexts in which words were used and supply their own more complex, abstract definitions that actually refer to a different thing based on different knowledge.
So one may then ask do egos really exist? At least ego’s existed in the more primitive context of being a verb describing others mind-self motivations and by inference one’s own self. Today perhaps not.
Today’s ego could be a complex biological explanatory context of neurons and chemical compounds, synaptic neural networks and small world’s network analogical intertie’s, electrical potential and behavioral responses to environmental sense data stimuli and compounded with subconscious id (iotic) urges for food, water, air, sex, sleep and so forth. Today’s ego also has a political potential as one must understand it’s meaning within a proper politically correct context lest one be found to have a bad ego, too much ego, not enough ego, a selfish ego and so forth.
Daniel Everett studied the Piraha language of South America and discovered that it did not correlate with Noam Chomsky’s theory of hierarchically organized human language structures; it had few abstractions either, and no number concept beyond one and two, nor words for colors in the abstract. Neither is the word for ego likely to have had a very fancy, psychological origin..
