I refer to the ego as part of a complex called the ego-personality-identity construct. This is the self, the 'I'. That is what 'ego' means anyways, from the Latin ego which means 'I', the self.
If you could remove the ego construct, the personality and identity factor from the human being, what are you left with? You are left with the psyche, consciousness alone. This is the underlying common aspect all humans share. The bare no-self foundation of a human being.
Could you do anything being like this? I think not.
In order to differentiate one things from another, each has an identity (law of identity). If you don't even have an identity for yourself, you can't distinguish yourself from anything else.
But back to consciousness as the metaphysical common base of the biological human physical construct. Despite all the differences each person has at an individual level, as an ego-personality-identity construct, we are all a unit of consciousness, blank and ready to be filled through our existence in existence. This is why we have what is call ego and identity.
We can know how everyone functions in common. This is psychology, the study of the psyche. We can know ourselves in this individuated consciousness experience, by this aspect of the psyche, as it is the common factor of the human being construct.
Self-knowledge has two main aspects: what we all have in common as a general universal of consciousness functionality, and the specific individual ego-personality-identity that is unique to each of us.
Learn about your ego, personality and its individual expression, but don't use the differences with others as a way to stay separate and disconnected. People are so divided by their personality differences, their race, social class, etc., but they fail to recognize that we are all the same underneath at the level of consciousness.
We all share the same physical, psychological and emotional framework at a base level, despite having different physical, psychological and emotional constructs and expressions. Self-knowledge helps us better perceive, understand and navigate our own lives and our interactions with others.
That doesn't mean there aren't reasons to separate and divide from others, such as moral principles being violated. True unity is based in morality. People who fail to live at the moral level of others won't be able to truly unite. E.g. a murder won't be uniting with a non-murderer, a thief won't be uniting with non-thieves. Morality misalignment is a valid reason for division.
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