who am I?
During our lives, we change markedly
From the outside appearance
Where we begin as part length 50 cm
With soft face features and soft and supple skin
We may become, after a while, 90 years later
With a curved body and gray hair with liver pollution
With a height of 180 cm
Within a period of time
Every cell in our body changes
That many times
We will conduct different experiments
May not leave a trace in our memory
A person is 25 years old
It will not say what a person feels at the age of five
And the person at the age of 67 years
He barely mentions what he was thinking at the age of thirty
We carry the same name throughout our lives
We believe that we are relatively stable people
But do we think we are true?
When we put the issue in a philosophical framework
We find that the subject of personal identity
Harder than we think
How can we say that we are continuing over time?
What ensures that we think seriously about ourselves
Like the same people in our lives?
Where is the ID?
Provides one of the standard hypotheses
Our bodies, however, guarantee our personal identity
It is a key part of this theory
Which states that we are “we”
Is that we inhabit the body itself
But philosophers like to ignore this hypothesis
Imagine if I lost all my hair?
Will I remove?
sure ofcourse
What if you lose a finger?
Yeah!
A leg?
Certainly
And what if a malicious demon appeared?
He told us that we had to lose every part of our bodies
Except for one part only!
What part will it be?
Some will choose the elbow or navel
But all of us will choose our minds
This shows something impressive
We believe implicitly
That some parts of our bodies are closer to ourselves
And closer to the essence of our personal identity than others
Our minds are the closest parts
Christianity has a similar idea of this experience
It raises the question of what will happen after our death
And draw our separation of our bodies
Which in the end will not be important
The most precious part that will remain is
Spirit
There is another novel of the same intellectual experience
Played by two lovers
In the early stages of love
The two people may ask on the bed
What do you like about me?
The wrong answer is saying:
“Your great chest” or “the muscles of your arms”
The answer does not indicate chest and breast
On our identity enough to be a respectable answer
We want to love something close to ourselves
Perhaps our soul or our mind
Let us continue the intellectual experience
What part of our brain is the most important and closest to ourselves?
Imagine that you hit your head
You lose your ability to play table tennis
Am I still the same person?
Many answers: Yes, of course
And what if I speak Latin and have lost the ability to do so
Or I forgot how to cook halion with mayonnaise sauce
Do I still?
Yeah
In other words
Technical capabilities are not relevant to the essence of personal identity
What about other memories?
The big part of me being
It is stored in memory
I remember the carpet in my bedroom when I was young
Or the girl I was fond of at university
Or air in Sydney
When we first arrived as the first Australian city in the travel brochure
But what if all these memories fade away?
Will I remove?
There are those who say: Maybe
As long as one thing remains
Mansemé “My Personality”
In other words
If it is my style and my way to respond to some positions
And my feeling about something that is funny, intelligent, worthwhile or important
Still intact
We can say and claim that we are people
My memory may go into feelings and behavior
But I can make sure that I continue to feel and act in ways that are compatible in the future
People around me remind me of things that have happened
But they will not know me as much as I did
A wonderful idea emerged
Personal identity does not consist of physical survival
Where I can put a body in a pot or live in it and I will remove myself
It will not be the survival of my memory
Where I can be the same person despite the loss of all my memory
But it lies in the survival of Mansemé
“Personal”
This idea is attributed to English philosopher John Locke
Who was famous for writing about personal identity
From something he named
Consistency of consciousness
If the devil gave us two options
Between remembering everything but feeling and appreciating things quite differently
Or feel and appreciate things similarly but to remember something
Locke thinks the majority will choose the second option
So, if we want to shorten the personal identity of its core meaning
They are short
Values, tendencies and typography
Let’s think of death by taking all this into account
The standard idea of death is sad
Because it means the end of our identity
The end really means
If we knew identity by physical survival or memory
But if we consider ourselves bigger
Values and special things that we love and hate
We are somehow given a kind of immortality
Simply put, through the fact
That these will continue to live in our human race in an integrated manner
Stability here and there outside its current headquarters
Maybe what we call
“I”
It was a temporary resting place only for a range of ideas and tendencies
Which is much older
Which are destined to live longer than our bodies
Perhaps we should try to be less sad about the subject of death
By leaving ideas
Which says that we are a certain set of physical properties
We are always living longer and across generations
As a set of desires and ideas
We will continue to harvest and live
Wherever these ideas are
Which is the most advantageous feature in us
Which will appear in the next generation
And by focusing on identity questions
It has a more paradoxical effect than fun
Makes us less attached to certain parts of us
And more confident that the most important things in us will stay in some way
When our bodies return after a long time to dust and erased our memory
Translation: وجود الفطيماني Translated by: Wojod Al Futamani
During our lives, we change markedly
From the outside appearance
Where we begin as part length 50 cm
With soft face features and soft and supple skin
We may become, after a while, 90 years later
With a curved body and gray hair with liver pollution
With a height of 180 cm
Within a period of time
Every cell in our body changes
That many times
We will conduct different experiments
May not leave a trace in our memory
A person is 25 years old
It will not say what a person feels at the age of five
And the person at the age of 67 years
He barely mentions what he was thinking at the age of thirty
We carry the same name throughout our lives
We believe that we are relatively stable people
But do we think we are true?
When we put the issue in a philosophical framework
We find that the subject of personal identity
Harder than we think
How can we say that we are continuing over time?
What ensures that we think seriously about ourselves
Like the same people in our lives?
Where is the ID?
Provides one of the standard hypotheses
Our bodies, however, guarantee our personal identity
It is a key part of this theory
Which states that we are “we”
Is that we inhabit the body itself
But philosophers like to ignore this hypothesis
Imagine if I lost all my hair?
Will I remove?
sure ofcourse
What if you lose a finger?
Yeah!
A leg?
Certainly
And what if a malicious demon appeared?
He told us that we had to lose every part of our bodies
Except for one part only!
What part will it be?
Some will choose the elbow or navel
But all of us will choose our minds
This shows something impressive
We believe implicitly
That some parts of our bodies are closer to ourselves
And closer to the essence of our personal identity than others
Our minds are the closest parts
Christianity has a similar idea of this experience
It raises the question of what will happen after our death
And draw our separation of our bodies
Which in the end will not be important
The most precious part that will remain is
Spirit
There is another novel of the same intellectual experience
Played by two lovers
In the early stages of love
The two people may ask on the bed
What do you like about me?
The wrong answer is saying:
“Your great chest” or “the muscles of your arms”
The answer does not indicate chest and breast
On our identity enough to be a respectable answer
We want to love something close to ourselves
Perhaps our soul or our mind
Let us continue the intellectual experience
What part of our brain is the most important and closest to ourselves?
Imagine that you hit your head
You lose your ability to play table tennis
Am I still the same person?
Many answers: Yes, of course
And what if I speak Latin and have lost the ability to do so
Or I forgot how to cook halion with mayonnaise sauce
Do I still?
Yeah
In other words
Technical capabilities are not relevant to the essence of personal identity
What about other memories?
The big part of me being
It is stored in memory
I remember the carpet in my bedroom when I was young
Or the girl I was fond of at university
Or air in Sydney
When we first arrived as the first Australian city in the travel brochure
But what if all these memories fade away?
Will I remove?
There are those who say: Maybe
As long as one thing remains
Mansemé “My Personality”
In other words
If it is my style and my way to respond to some positions
And my feeling about something that is funny, intelligent, worthwhile or important
Still intact
We can say and claim that we are people
My memory may go into feelings and behavior
But I can make sure that I continue to feel and act in ways that are compatible in the future
People around me remind me of things that have happened
But they will not know me as much as I did
A wonderful idea emerged
Personal identity does not consist of physical survival
Where I can put a body in a pot or live in it and I will remove myself
It will not be the survival of my memory
Where I can be the same person despite the loss of all my memory
But it lies in the survival of Mansemé
“Personal”
This idea is attributed to English philosopher John Locke
Who was famous for writing about personal identity
From something he named
Consistency of consciousness
If the devil gave us two options
Between remembering everything but feeling and appreciating things quite differently
Or feel and appreciate things similarly but to remember something
Locke thinks the majority will choose the second option
So, if we want to shorten the personal identity of its core meaning
They are short
Values, tendencies and typography
Let’s think of death by taking all this into account
The standard idea of death is sad
Because it means the end of our identity
The end really means
If we knew identity by physical survival or memory
But if we consider ourselves bigger
Values and special things that we love and hate
We are somehow given a kind of immortality
Simply put, through the fact
That these will continue to live in our human race in an integrated manner
Stability here and there outside its current headquarters
Maybe what we call
“I”
It was a temporary resting place only for a range of ideas and tendencies
Which is much older
Which are destined to live longer than our bodies
Perhaps we should try to be less sad about the subject of death
By leaving ideas
Which says that we are a certain set of physical properties
We are always living longer and across generations
As a set of desires and ideas
We will continue to harvest and live
Wherever these ideas are
Which is the most advantageous feature in us
Which will appear in the next generation
And by focusing on identity questions
It has a more paradoxical effect than fun
Makes us less attached to certain parts of us
And more confident that the most important things in us will stay in some way
When our bodies return after a long time to dust and erased our memory
Translation: وجود الفطيماني Translated by: Wojod Al Futamani
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