[What makes you, you... What separates 'you' from 'not you'? How can you be certain of your own experience?
Questions Atsushi has asked himself many times.]
It's difficult to say. I can define myself as a collection of my experiences and memory, but the way people perceive experience is flawed. My brain can be tricked into thinking something happened when it didn't, and I forget things all the time.
I could say that I am my consciousness, but there are parts of my consciousness that I don't understand or have repressed. And that would imply that my subconscious isn't part of me, and that doesn't sound right either.
If I define myself as my physical body, nearly all of that can be replaced without me becoming a different person. Not even considering things like surgery, nearly all of the cells in a human body will die and be replaced many times over a person's lifetime.
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Questions Atsushi has asked himself many times.]
It's difficult to say. I can define myself as a collection of my experiences and memory, but the way people perceive experience is flawed. My brain can be tricked into thinking something happened when it didn't, and I forget things all the time.
I could say that I am my consciousness, but there are parts of my consciousness that I don't understand or have repressed. And that would imply that my subconscious isn't part of me, and that doesn't sound right either.
If I define myself as my physical body, nearly all of that can be replaced without me becoming a different person. Not even considering things like surgery, nearly all of the cells in a human body will die and be replaced many times over a person's lifetime.
If you figure it out, let me know.