A question of Identity...

Quantum Quack · Aug 6, 2014

Cyperium said: ↑

Going to read Chimera Genetics, seems very interesting
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I don't think that having a unique 4D perspective and unique memories/experiences really solves the problem, it isn't only about "what makes you unique?", we also have to ask "what is relevant?", otherwise we would just number anything that has a uniqueness to it and attribute that to your identity. It doesn't really solve anything, to be unique is only a part of the problem, even if everyone can be shown to be completely unique physically it is still no explanation as to why this is your identity, and why it couldn't have been any other, couldn't you be unique as a different body? Couldn't Peter be John and vice versa?

What is the definition of existence so that it becomes particular to a person? How can a person actually gain existence subjectively? How come existence is personified that way? Could there be more than one subjectively aware in the same body (thinking/doing the same things)?

I mean, why is there even a definition of your identity so that it fits with a certain body's unique perspective? Where is that definition? I don't think that we are anywhere near answering this question. The "hard problem" is still very much a "hard problem".
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Yes ... many questions...
I wonder what would happen if a person who had a relatively healthy sense of identity was taken out of his community and placed in isolation for an extended amount of time [ no human contact what so ever - eg. exiled to another lonely planet]

How would his/her sense of identity be maintained with out the reinforcement offered by others?

"I am me because others experience me as me" [My label: Identity by Reflection]

Is identity linked strongly or weakly [or at all] to how others identify you as you? [My label: Identity by Consensus ]

wiki:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personality
The modern sense of individual personality is a result of the shifts in culture originating in the Renaissance, an essential element in modernity. In contrast the Medieval European's sense of self was linked to a network of social roles: "the household, the kinship network, the guild, the corporation- these were the building blocks of personhood", Stephen Greenblatt observes, in recounting the recovery (1417) and career of Lucretius' poem De rerum natura: "at the core of the poem lay key principles of a modern understanding of the world."[13] "Dependant on the family, the individual alone was nothing," Jacques Gélis observes
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