What I am saying is that this way I have not at all proved your uniqueness, nor the existence of your will. You are the only person in the world able to decide if your perception of your will makes you unique. — Angelo Cannata
With your thought experiment it may be that I, as the subject example would have many of the aspects of identity in tact, but some may change accordingly to the different experiences — Jack Cummins
My approach to this topic is not anthropocentric (or humanist) but agency-oriented:In the cultural climate of twentieth first century philosophy, one of the key issues is the possibility of artificial intelligence and that seems to beg the question of what is the difference between a robot and a human being.
What are your thoughts on the process of becoming and the philosophy of human identity? — Jack Cummins
Of course, there are external events which may make a big impact, such as when a parent dies or leaves the family. — Jack Cummins
Most interesting. — Ms. Marple
A being without a childhood with all its experiences like going to school, and family life, playing would all be missing and these contribute so much to human identity and the autobiographical self. — Jack Cummins
In answer to your post about identity security and even credit rating, identity may be changing in the digital age. One's self online may be becoming an important part of identity construction, including the interaction on sites as this. It may be like a stage of performance because what we write may be read by many not known to us in daily life. It is a kind of disembodied voice and identity — Jack Cummins
A person may think of themselves socially, in terms of meanings which are constructed intersubjectively, but this also relates to how people understand who they are, metaphysically, as beings who exist and have evolved in the context of ideas of what it means to be a human being. — Jack Cummins
... each person is developing a persona, based on the attempts to fit into the social order and understand oneself in a deeper way. — Jack Cummins
Can the self be understood merely in relation to other selves, ... — Jack Cummins
Some excerpts from old threads ...How do you see identity? — Jack Cummins
I am asking what does thought tell us about the nature of personal identity and about the underlying source of consciousness?
— Jack Cummins
Perhaps only that "personal identity" consists in the continuity of affective memory-bodily states rather than inheres in a discrete, or concrete, "substance" independent of transient body-states (re: Buddha's anatta, Epicurus' atoms & void, Hume's bundle theory, ... Metzinger's phenomenal self modeling).
I wonder to what extent the "I' is able to reflect upon it itself?— Jack Cummins
It's a 'strange loop', or self-referential tangled hierarchical system (vide Douglas Hofstadter ... or Thomas Metzinger); the extent of self-reflection, I suspect, corresponds to the limits of the semiotic or symbolic systems available to cognition. — 180 Proof
I don't "see identity" in either an anthropocentric, psychologistic or spiritualist manner; I think those are outmoded paradigms.How do we differentiate ourselves as individuals?
— Jack Cummins
Long before we superficially attempt various ways to do so, simply being embodied at an unique point in spacetime relative to all other bodies deeply individuates each of us. — 180 Proof
Links to more old threads ...To what extent is human identity a matter of social meanings, metaphysics, or the constructs which may lie in the understanding of the evolution of consciousness and the various ways of understanding the evolution of culture self and how this is based on human constructs and meanings?
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