Who am I? A philosophical inquiry - Amy Adkins 

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Hahaha...same too but turn to question ourself

If you started seeking answers that means you were already in crisis.

U can solve this question if you understand transientism

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Read it in that kid's voice

I am a person awake at 2am trying to sleep.

You're not trying to sleep, if you are on You Tube scrolling through the feed, technically

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Yes. As in this is my face! Like I don't know and it's the 1st time I'm seeing me . Yes being a human is so overwhelming to me, is it to you too?

@@NNana-wo7ol goosebumps!

Wtf?! Yes!!!!!!

Omg... Yes yes i do.... I will be looking on the mirror and will be like "do i know this human being, does she related to me" 🤔😂

yes

+Adapple Then what is "you/yourself"?

Should watch 'Chant of karma law' vent. Thich chan quang

I'm made of love, and I'm stronger than you 🎶

You are what u think you are, and this dictates ones experience.

I said that to the police men when they arrest me for doing meth. They laughed at me. Such a mindless mind.

Yeah, I like to think of myself as just a link in the chain of infinite people which connects who I was in the past, and who I will be in future.

-ted Evelyn mosby

@@adamyasharma6894 Ted 'I don't remember you telling my middle name' Mosby

@Varun yea and that’s how you define “Soul” in a fancy way

Sun 99 So what’s my soul?

@Marcus Carcus I doubt you’ve one lol

​@@sun9_9 Not really, soul is seen as something seperate from the physical body, some think soul can exist without a physical embodiment. imagine playing an mmorpg game, your character is the body, and you (the player) are your character's soul, but you exist outside of the game world, when you character dies in game, you will not die, you can just create another character and keep playing. Consciouness cannot exist without a physical body.

@@sehbanomer8151 bruh... now i feel bad about game characters ;;

You are always yourself. The reason you can't answer the "who am I" question is because we often identify with the mind and body. You are the awareness that is aware of the mind and body. You have always and will always be awareness in a a body watching thoughts.

Totally. I have felt something like this

I feel something similar when I ask myself this question! But I also find this question extremely helpful; even if I can never truly answer it, just the investigation helps me see something about my experience - an insight like the one that showed you that you weren't doing enough to find fulfillment. At the deepest level, I don't understand who I am. But in reality, no one understands. And that's okay. When we can accept and make peace with that, the question is no longer a source of confusion, but a source of clarity.

@@retaingang7858 But if you are awareness then who writes the comment definitely awareness is just awareness

have a way to solve this. We can define identity based on a single unifying essence. For example, when comparing me now and 10 years ago. There is something that unifies the mind now and 10 years ago. Like, experience and self awareness, and persona. The mind now and 10 years ago had the same self awareness. Say, if we take the mind 10 years ago and now, and we give them both equal knowledge and experience. Then, both minds would experience reality the same way and have the same choices and feelings. That is why the mind 10 years ago and now are the same person. Which is me. I think this problem isn't a huge one as personhood is an intuitive aspect of life.

why a wave pattern? Shawn Ravenfire

Giulio Baia Because I'm not made of the same particles as I was before, but I'm a continuation of action.

Shawn Ravenfire I like this idea, yet, to conceive oneself as a continuation of action, wouldn’tyou need to assume there's someone acting, therefore, an “I”? Also, if the action you meant takes place at the level of particles or molecules you end being undifferentiated from everything else, I think… However, I loved those two ideas: continuation of action and being a doughnut hole :)

Shawn Ravenfire We are spiritual souls in material bodies. This is the simple explanation given by the book - Bhagvad Gita

Shawn Ravenfire I'm an animal with 46 chromosomes that keep replicating the same genetic pattern in every new cell. What makes me me is every experience I experience. I am the totality of my own history. Now that wasn't hard. I'm done. can I have my Nobel prize in literature now, please.

Give me 1 billion pounds and I'll give you my time machine

@@chessematics give me your bank account. I'll give you one billion pounds

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@@chessematics tell me the answer of who am I sound of silence and tell me what is Elon Musk doing now are humans on Mars do multiverse exist have you met your variant like loki have humans made a spaceship or teleportation machine to heaven are humans mad gods living together on Earth are humans became the multiverse being

@@chessematicsgive me a time and a place, I'll bring 1.2 billion pounds in cash

Exactly

So you mean it lost its original identity?

Then where did the original ship go after the plank was replaced? Does the original plank now lay claim to bring the original ship of Theseus? Does that single plank hold a ship's entire identity? It's a puzzling debate with no correct answer.

does that mean that you're not the you, you were when you were writing this comment because our body is obviously constantly changing and being replaced with new cells

So you believe your not the same person as you were when you were born becuSe you are made of all new cells?

k. m. honestly

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this is sad, i feel like im dying over and over... fuck my life

me tooo.........

I think you're wrong. Since if you died every time you're completely replaced (about 7 years), you kind of black out after 7 years. So to prove that you're wrong I just have to stay conscious for 7 years.

In other words this version of "you" would only live 7 years, and if this version stayed alive for more than 7 years then you're wrong, I believe. But of course there's no way for anyone else to know it's this version of you.

Actually our brain cells are never replaced so we are not a completely different person

Bhuvnesh Panwar seems to me I’ve been having a identity crisis my whole life

It's paradoxical, because you are part of a society, so you are victim of yourself.

It's paradoxical, because you are part of a society, so you are victim of yourself.

@@akvileplatakyte4445 Then my answer should be .. ' I'm Me' 😇

Forever quoting this ;;-;;

You are my vision

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ok

Can you make it easier?

shut the fuk up this is youtube

That's not a fitting answer at all.

I'm been convinced

Debating is an essential quality needed in a society to develop. U saying in Buddhism u don't debate I don't buy it because the place when Buddhism originated was one where everything was debated. Buddha debated about his own thinking to people and I hope that people stop just blindly follow someone's philosophy without thinking or debating about it.

So u can have your cake,and eat it too? How grown up...)

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Thank you I was getting an anxiety attack....like blink at the same TIME!!!

True indeed.i end up getting identity and existential crises.

Charles Almasen deeep

*plot twists* hahaha

Cannot comprehend. Please explain further

Just let me be blissfully unaware of my cognitive dissonance...

@@lolplayer4156 you are constantly changing physically so the person who made the promise should not be you

I had the same thought

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I am cool with all of what you are saying except the idea of all what I can be because if anyone is anything he can be not the true version he turns out to be then anyone is everyone because in this case we all share the same self and the am of any of us is the same to all You with your experiences define your past and your self after ten will define what you are going through now possibilities are possibilities to all they don't change the essence of a person it's not the same case for the character that defines your past your timeline and your choices to move on

Holy burritos, that's a long comment. You don't need to bother reading it, it's just longer philosophy.

*Wow your thoughts are so similar to mine*

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+Sam Reads I really this theory.

+Sam Reads But what happens if my center of gravity changes rapidly? Like if I step on a landmine and both my legs fly off. I have changed my center of gravity. Or I have become a torso and pair of legs. If the legs are in, say, Afghanistan, and I am in Kansas. Where am I? In Kansas? Afghanistan? In the core of the earth, because that's where my center of gravity, technically is, if you count my torso and legs together.

+Shakil Rafi Great question - it kind of gets to the heart of the consciousness paradox. So to clarify - center of gravity was just an analogy of a known and defined concept in science. I was referring to a *center of consciousness*… which is indivisible and fixed inside our physical brains. Such a point is not defined in science yet. In fact, scientific theory currently believes the exact opposite - Neuroscience sees consciousness as an "emergent process"; of multiple superimposed brain functions. Scientifically speaking, consciousness would then be a measurable by-product of physical brain cell activity. In other words, scientifically speaking, if the brain is replicated cell-by-cell, then the “I” also gets replicated - exactly like a copying a software program. I feel that current scientific approach to consciousness is fundamentally incorrect. Like your example of a changing center of gravity by changing the body's mass distribution, is it possible to change the location of conscious "I" from inside my brain by either changing the arrangement of atoms of my brain, or by somehow replicating my “I” outside my brain? Lets consider two cases: CASE-A: It is POSSIBLE to replicate a conscious "me" such that there are two identical, physically separate "me's" existing simultaneously (say Me(X) and Me(Y). By definition, I should be "conscious"; of both entities simultaneously -- so whatever Me(X) experiences by way of its senses (sight, touch, etc) will also be experienced by Me(Y) - such that the super-set of conscious experiences of both Me's are one and the same at all times. Correct? Nope, this is physically impossible, because it violates the laws of physics: Simultaneous consciousness/awareness of two physically separate entities will mean information between the two entities will have to travel faster than the speed of light - it is the only way both remain synced as on single consciousness. Conversely, if we have to obey the laws of physics, then physically separating Me(X) and Me(Y) should break apart the two consciousness, correct? But this brings about a paradox - At the moment of separation of the one consciousness into two, WHICH ONE AM I? Am I Me(X) or Me(Y)? Considering both the entities have exactly the same atomic arrangement, how would "I" choose which entity is more "me" than the other? CASE-B: It is NOT POSSIBLE to replicate a conscious "me" such that there are two identical, physically separate "me's" existing simultaneously. Doesn't this violate the basic nature of software programs? I mean, if my brain is replicated cell-by-cell, then by the neuroscientific definition of consciousness, why should the “emergent process” in the new brain be any different from my brain? Nope - It should be identical - hence the paradox again - as explained in CASE A. Considering both the above scenarios, the logical conclusion seems to be that consciousness / awareness cannot be represented as a property of our physical brain - which means that consciousness is not located in our brain cells - it is NON PHYSICAL in nature. Wanna scientifically disprove this? Then find that single brain location point - A single undivisible point in the brain is the only way to get over these paradoxes, but it would also mean that "I" am unique and cannot be replicated by any physical process.

That's actually a well thought out argument! And my apologies, "center of gravity" really is an unhelpful terminology, but you managed to get the gist across pretty.well. I find your Case A a bit dodgy. Because once you're both Me(X) and Me(Y), the question of "Who am I? becomes meaningless" Let's play the devil's advocate here. Assume you're lying down on a bed named A, and I'm lying down on a bed named B. A very skilled surgeon comes and *randomly* removes a cell from your body and gels it to mine. And takes a cell from me and gels it to yours, at the exact same spot where it should be. Pretty simple, we lose millions of cells everyday, no biggie. He then continues to do this. Replacing one cell with another and another and another, until all the cells in the body lying down in bed A are in bed B and bed B in bed A. Where am I? Has my "consciousness" for what it's worth been transferred to bed A, or has something else happened? Case A: My consciousness has been realized in bed A. Since the only thing that has been transferred from one bed to another were cells it must have been one cell (or a set of cells), or the arrangement of certain cells in a certain way that made my consciousness "appear" in bed A. Maybe it was the 100th cell, maybe it was the 10 trillionth cell, in any case it was something material, a single point, that was transferred that resulted in me getting realized in bed A. Case B: My consciousness still manifests in the body in bed B, In which case I'm in your body (hope you took good care of it!), but that's ludicrous, because the body in bed B has none of my memory cells. I doesn't get a dopamine high looking at the same woman, (all cells and glands have been transferred). It's language center is not trained in the same language as I was, it doesn't have the same muscle memory for the same kinds of sports. Heck if I had a history of depression that never registers to it. Only Case A seems the logical conclusion. Case B could also be true but in that case my sense of identity has lost all meaning, "I" has become a shallow placeholder, a bit like your example with Me(X) and Me(Y)

+Shakil Rafi Yes, in your hypothetical "brain transplant" experiment, Case A would most likely be true... but it need not necessarily depend on any particular cell. If we go by the neuroscience definition of consciousness, the moment there are enough brain cells (of any combination) transferred such that the "emergent process" of the set of transferred cells restarts, you might find yourself conscious inside of a new body. However, the real question is, would it still be YOU? Or would it result in "You" being completely destroyed and a new consciousness (with access to your stored memories) begins? Do note, that by neuroscience definition, "YOU" or "I" is nothing but a generic Emergent Process with access to certain specific memories. So scientific community believes that there is no "YOU"... but simply the combination of your stored memories plus an "emergent process" of brain cells manifests as "YOU". This makes perfect sense, in a simplified way - the only thing different between YOU and ME are our individual memories stored in our respective brains. Simple, if not for the PARADOXES!! I mean, given greatly advanced technology your brain transplant theory may be possible... and so would brain replication. So if the two brains' memories are exactly same, and the Emergent Process of the same arrangement of cells is the same, logically, doesn't the "I" also be replicated in two physically separate entities? (Like Agent Smith of the Matrix Revolutions - simultaneously conscious of all his clones) - that just violates basic laws of physics.

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I've always been troubled by this viewpoint. I understand the reasons for believing in it, but at the same time there are a few issues that I see as conflicting with the theory. If the only thing that defines "you" or "me" is the software that our body operates, is my experience of the world as a continuous being through time an illusion? If I make an exact copy of myself and there is no physical way of determining the difference between it and the original, why is it that I still experience the world through the eyes of one and not the other? Better yet: if I compare the present me with future me, let's say 50 years forward in time, there are very few ways in which we are the same. Actually, I probably have more things in common with one of my current friends than future me. Yet, I still identify with this person and it's natural to assume that in some way, I will be there and experience the world through his eyes. Is this a trick that our brains play on us?

Panda Pandemic An exact copy would have equal claim to your root identity but from that point you and your duplicate would diverge, potentially into substantially different people due to divergent experiences. The software is constantly evolving, version 4.0 may not even resemble version 20.7.

You are not 'constantly' changing. Your personality may change with time (or not) and not constant. But your essence and your self does not. Picasso essence and self never changed. The same with Bruce Lee, Einstein, You , and so on.

Conspiraçoes Malvadas "The whole is more than the sum of it's parts"

Minds are software entities, not neuron hardware configurations. Learning means software building. Intelligence only comes from software systems. Software means information stored in a memory system. As we age, we accumulate more software in our cortex memory system. This is same as accumulating more mind. There is no general intelligence that comes from your biological hardware, nor does any self exist there. Its all software. In all working memory systems, the hardware and software exist completely separately, like oil and water. There is no such thing as hardware perception, problem solving, or self. As we live our lives there is a continuum of software selves, from no-mind to best-mind. If you duplicate a software self (copy the software), you get two software selves that experience-diverge into the future making increasingly separate minds. If you erase the software (or are a newborn) you have no mind at all.

Or anything else for that matter.

1973Washu reading the comments in here, you are the only one, who is not joking, but gave a simple and direct answer. Everybody else is just using science to run in circles and trying to look intelligent

Epic answer bro.

FelixG2012 i am me too. how are you doing, i am me?

+Plusy wow! I'm me three :D. How are you me too?

FelixG2012 Who I am

But what if I don't know who I am 0_o maybe I'm you and you're just confused, or maybe we're both nothing, we never know

+Majid Q nice Rush Hour 3 transcript

me hhahahaha at 1:15

Yup! Couldn't resist it.

You should think and write about it, who knows your works may be studied as philosophical classics in the future :)

Likewise.

Same happens to me bro

@@adicbn i think the translation is not good, here is similar quote by rumi (i think you get the idea better with this one) :if it is bread that you seek, you are bread,if you are looking for gem, you are gem if you understand this (secret), you know you are that which you seek.

@@adicbn i don't think he was trying to say 'the energy flows...'. I think what he tries to say is that if you want to know how much you worth you should see what you are looking for. Long live and prosper 🖖

with a human vessel, however, most parts are not completely replaced, but rather transformed/aged.

The ship that was reassembled in this example with be the original ship and the one in the doc would be a copy and this goes for humans to as roughly over the course of 10 years there is not a single cell in your body that hasn't been replaced so a 20 year old person is not the same person physically as they were when they were 10 however the continuation of consciousness is what is important here as the cells in your brain responsible for passing elrctical pattern signals are replaced if the signal pattern remains the same then YOU remain YOU so i'd personally say memory is what makes a person themselves.

​@@danny1229c brain cells and links are somewhat permanent. I think the brain in combination with nervous system is the final piece that if replaced deletes the original.

And vice-versa

What makes u u

Wow....That opened my eyes

You _are_ you Nothing much No offense, sorry

my brother had that tatted on him

+Ivan Božić hey. good thought over there buddy !....

+Ivan Božić Congratulations on finding buddhism

+Ben Pearson true, thats what id say. thats the explanation of "zen"

+Ivan Božić only an enlightened master can give you the answer like osho serch it if you dare

+Ivan Božić ...."I" cannot be observed but can be inferred. What I observe is the the entire outer universe that's not "I"... so what's left is "I". From our viewpoint as the observer, the observable universe plus "I" forms the entire universe set. Consciousness by definition is the awareness of "I" as a distinct entity separate from the universe. The reason why consciousness as a scientific topic is so vague is because it cannot have an absolute definition... it is true *only from the point of view of the observer*. As a result, consciousness cannot (as yet) be scientifically proved. For example, I know with 100% certainty that I am conscious... but I have absolutely no scientific way to prove that *you* are also conscious. For all I know, the outside world doesn't exist at all - I am in the Matrix with electrical impulses directly fed into my brain to simulate the world and all other people in it, including you. There is no way for me to disprove it because I can never sense anything outside of those electrical impulses being fed into my brain. If i cannot measure it using my available senses, then I cannot prove it. (Turing test is an attempt to scientifically / mathematically prove consciousness, but it fails to differentiate between consciousness and simulated artificial intelligence.) As far as "Soul" is concerned... I personally think that's just a label we put on this undefinable concept of "I" that to us appears as separate from the universe. The concept of my own "Soul" is very personal - because the very nature of "I" is starkly personal. The concept of "I" or "my soul" might feel 100% real to me, but to the outside world, utter rubbish. You see me as an ordinary physical entity existing in this universe... while I see myself as a unique entity, distinctly separated from the universe. This leads to metaphysical concepts such as "soul" - something that transcends this universe - because I believe that I am separate from the universe. It is very personal, because each and every individual's experience is 100% subjective and knowable only to themselves.

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+Hersch S Yes but do you know why?

And I'm Javert

I agree with you. The human brain learns by itself. You are the software you built through experiences, the rest of your body is your property but it is not you. Humans are not different from machines.

Alex Parra anorexia,bodybuilding,placebo effect and more endless examples of the expression of our thought/mind through our bodies.

How do I stay I touch with all of you guys.

I is the perceiver of the contained information, not the information itself. Get the order right, please.

The way your neurons are connected to each other is constantly changing - so is it still you?

woodfur00 that's really cool.... can i use that?

geekgroupie42 Not mine. Comes from Doctor Who.

woodfur00 oh of course when he was still regenerating into the 11th doctor.. cool!

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ohh and im still hurt myself

you bring up a good point. what do you think people with multiple personality disorder identify as?

Michelle B I'm wondering if someone with multiple personalities can "go into it" as one person, and be "cured" in the way that they now only have one personality, but it is not the one they began with; it is one of the OTHER personalities. And if doctors have no access to relatives who can account for who the person originally was, can one distinguish between the "real" and "made up" personalities?

+Mark The Gr8 it's no longer called multiple personnality disorder , but DID , dissociative identity disorder , it's not you making up different personnalities , but rather your identity being shattered into pieces , it's as if your body no longer recognizes your hand as a part of it , and processes it as a different being , so basically all of these "made up personalities" are a fragment of what you identify as , taking different forms in your body , your brain treats them as a foreign identity it's no longer an "i" but a "you"

+TheCheungDan Using your logic, the ship is its' parts. Once the ship is damaged to the point of no longer being a ship, it no longer exists. If you take this logic to who you are, then once your body changes, you are no longer yourself. But the identify of an item is easier to define as parts, rather than the identity of a constantly changing person, isn't it? There's no right or wrong answer to this. That is why some people get divorced and say "s/he isn't who I fell in love with anymore" and such. Those have labeled certain "parts" (physical looks, money, personality traits) as key identifiers, so when one or multiple parts change, they deem the person isn't that person anymore.

-"Both are the true ship".

Yes your true

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First define the "true"