Personal Identity
 

What defines "you"?

Competition, hatred, theory, abstractions, and radical doubt.

And being a hosebag. Don't forget that.

Ok, not quite what I was trying to get at. What makes an individual the person he or she is? Bodily shape? DNA? Soul? etc.

Oh. I thought you meant OAO speciffically. Which is where the whole hosebag came in.

First, prove that there is a "you". Then you might have a case.

I'm asking you to do it, bitch.

"I" is an illusion. There is no "I." In fact, there is not anything. There are not even perceptions. It's all based on arcane preconceptions that cannot logically be proven, such as A=A. Because of the nature of words and definitions, they are never directly applied to the concrete world; rather, they are tied to abstractions in which axioms have become tautology.

Well, theoretically anyhow. Maybe there is an "I"...

*shrug*

I'm not necessarily talking about a Cartesian "I" or ego.

So you deny the correspondence theory of truth? So much for your economics.

Regardless, people still conceive of themselves as having an identity.

I accept certain things for practical reasons. I just don't feel that I can say I am absolutely, 100% certain of their truth.

Fine. Practically speaking, what do you have to say about personal identity.

I am I, Don Quixote
The Lord of La Mancha
My destiny calls and I go
And the wild winds of fortune shall carry me onward
Whither so ever they blow

I am he as you are he as you are me and we are all together.

I'm a homo sapien with blonde hair and blue eyes; about 5'8" tall and 170 lbs. And my name's Brandon.

Seriously, I don't really believe in a unified "self," at least not in the sense that it's something inside of me. It's basically a collection of learned behaviors, instincts, other biological determinants, and unconscious and conscious thought processes.

let me first say that I've been doing sdrinking since about 2 in the afternoon.. after reading all o fhtis Ib think that not aonly are you a narcissistic fuck, but YOU don't even know what the fuck you're saying half the time. I mean look at what you typed! Do yo uspend your days in a coffee shop thinking that you're the only non-comformist around you and that goateees a4re cool?

He's not old enough to grow a real goatee. All he has on his chin is peach fuzz.

Goatees are for the French. And I hate contemporary Frenchmen.

Why do you hate them so? Seriously.

Because they stand for everything they used to hate. In another era, Paris was the center of the Enlightenment. Now it's the center for the expansion of European socialism.

:lol2

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i am a complete individual.

i think my own thoughts, and i am complete and seperate.

no one can prove different to me.

illusion or not, it is real to me. good enough for daily life. quit watching the matrix so much, it makes you stupid.

Yeah, this one friend I have is obsessed with the matrix. He gets drunk and says all this fucked up theories and stuff for hours.

"Dude, I'm going to go to school next week and punch the principal in the face AND HE'LL THINK IT HURTS and emotions aren't even real ramble ramble ramble ramble"
:(

I say that my personality is a conversation about conversations about conversations about myself in a language that belongs partly to me and partly to my social milieu.