William James said: “When two people meet, there are really six people present. There is each person as he sees himself, each person as the other person sees him, and each person as he really is.”
This makes me think: I’m going to need a bigger car.
It also makes me wonder: How many people are present when I’m here all alone?
Did William James fall through the looking glass?
Billy
Hard to define if the “person as he really is” is a separate entity or a mix of both other persons 
… wich brings the question:
Is this the issue you wanted to debate on or will you hit the “New thread” button?
As a Unitarian Universalist, I’d have to reject this rather trinitarian view of human beings. I’d think it distinctly un-interspiritual as well.
Put another way, it might be a useful concept though.
The person you think you ought to be
The person you’d like to be
The person you can’t help being
Then there’s the Parent/Adult/Child trinity of Transactional Analysis.
There are several similar concepts, and they are all useful sometimes.
I think this only applies if there is a mirror. Without the mirror there would only be four.
Only if there was a mirror. If he falls through the looking glass how many people are left in the room?
I went to see Marc Maron last night and he said something that popped into my head as I was reading this thread:
“If you find yourself yelling at your girlfriend, the only thing you should be yelling is, ‘Why can’t you be like my mommy!’”
So, Mike, how does that fit into the “trinity of Transactional Analysis”?
I always wondered what that guy looked like. I’ve listened to him on Air America Radio. I like his politics pretty much, but like most stand up comics doing talk radio most of what he says turns out to be about him in one way or the other.
n + n*(n-1) + n = n*(n+1)
1*(1+1) = 2
Raphael,
He was talking about you recently.
his blog is really funny, too. --nice link!
Billy
That wouldn’t surprise me at all.
amazingly true statement.
I was wondering why there was no room in the cubicle when I was taking my morning constitutional crap at work.
Billy, please help me. Does each voice inside my head count as one?