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[ ah, the hollow knight…

dextera really does sense a number of similarities between himself—or the person that he used to be—and this sad creature. there’s nothing for him to do except reach out, and offer some kind of guidance. ]

It took me a long time and many “selves” to figure it out.

I’ve decided to define myself by the meeting of what I was, what I am, and what I want to be. An ever-changing, but still constant “self.”

Well, because I see the world in a way no one else does. People can have similar opinions to me, and have similar views, but only I can experience the world the way I do and how I react to it.

My thoughts are mine and mine alone, no one else's. Other people may have my hobbies and we might like the same stuff, but how I experience all that is mine and mine alone.

I don't really know.
Truth be told I tend to think instead of who I want to be as opposed to who I am now.
Speaking in a more general sense people are constantly changing as they grow and go by their day to day life.
It's part of what makes it so difficult to talk about oneself in that capacity.

[Along with not really liking herself, but best not to bring up such a dour subject]

[Don't mind her. She's just watching this post with great curiosity.]

[ This is a question with an answer that comes very easily to him — and being an opportunity to talk about himself, he can hardly resist. ]

Naturellement, it's my brilliance and talent that makes me myself! Since it's something nobody else could ever adequately imitate, it's endemic to who I am.

Nobody could live the life I have lived without my exceptional and unique qualities. And without the life I've lived, I wouldn't be myself, non? So it's quite simple.

Are you looking for a way to define yourself? Or do you already have an opinion, and you're looking to compare?

I'm just me! made out of rubber and fun!

[The question, Zenyatta hopes, represents some kind of progress for the Hollow Knight's own uniquely fraught perception of itself. In this instance, at least, Zenyatta does not have to think too long upon his answer; he has given it countless times before, to human and omnic alike.]

An interesting question, my friend. In the most basic sense "I" am the ever-evolving product of my experiences, memories and actions, as viewed through the lens of my uniquely coded processor.

If that were all, one could suggest that an individual built to my precise specifications and taken through a precise replica of my life would theoretically be the same person. But I also believe that there exists in all beings a certain spark of life- perfectly and ineffably unique- that plays the wildcard: the soul.

[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. If you figure it out, let me know.

Edited 2019-11-03 23:32 (UTC)

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