OT: What defines you as a person?
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gladoscake — 9 years ago(January 18, 2017 05:30 AM)
What defines you? underneath your skin, tissue, organs, bones?
inside
you? outside that pretty face, great body, lovely hair, all things that probably won't have a great impact after your passing, what defines you as a human being? -
eddyhops — 9 years ago(January 18, 2017 06:46 AM)
what defines you as a human being?
Not sure I understand the question my genetics define me as 'human', my sentience and reason define me as 'being'
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gladoscake — 9 years ago(January 20, 2017 08:32 PM)
Not sure I understand the question my genetics define me as 'human', my sentience and reason define me as 'being'
So you're proud of simply 'being' and existing? well, I suppose that can be said for all of us, better than being dead, but do you see that as an achievement? a contribution? is just existing, what you consider your legacy? -
eddyhops — 9 years ago(January 21, 2017 06:03 AM)
So you're proud of simply 'being' and existing?
Where'd you pull that from?
but do you see that as an achievement? a contribution?
So, apparently you feel these
define
you as a
person
?
what you consider your legacy?
Is a legacy
required
for me to be a person, or human being?
You sure you're not conflating?
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Miscella — 9 years ago(January 18, 2017 03:41 PM)
That reminds me of a scene from
What Dreams May Come (1998)
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Albert:
If you lost all your limbs, wouldn't you still be you?
Chris:
I'd still be me.
Albert:
So what is the "me"?
Chris:
My brain, I suppose.
Albert:
Your brain? Your brain is a body part. Like your fingernail or your heart. Why is that the part that's you?
Chris:
Because I have sort of a voice in my head, the part of me that thinks, that feels, that is aware that I exist at all.
Albert:
So if you're aware you exist, then you do. That's why you're still here.