Human beings have rationality as well as emotions. But, sometimes we figure our humanness only in terms of humane characteristics and forget rationality all the way. We surmise and appeal to emotion. Is it what is meant to be human?
Being of human has two functions: to attach and to detach. One function is performed by the emotive agent and other by the intelligent agent. One can ask, are the emotive and intelligent agents two distinct agents? The experience what we have ourselves can be either of many agents or of only one and the same agent. It depends on how we have had the experience of ourselves. That consciousness can be multiplied is not new thinking, it has a long tradition of thought. But, like a normal person, we are used to of experiencing ourselves as a single agent. Because of this everydayness, we preferably choose either to be an emotive agent or to be an intelligent agent. This choice can be made consciously or unconsciously.
The consequence of this choice is what I want you to ponder over. If we chose both, we face a constant conflict between them. If we chose the emotive, or intelligent, agent then we downsize the other to the negligence. These situations, of the conflict or of the negligence of the other, arise because both the agents head towards different paths. This continues because we never try to make them accommodative. We need a super-agent who can watchdog these two opposite heading faculties of human beings and who could lead us to a harmonious middle path. This super-agent is the one who can be accredited the being of the human person. Here, I did not say that there is such a super-agent. All that I want to state is that we can assign functions of witnessing and willing to our consciousness as well.
