OT: What defines you as a person?
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skyhawk0 — 9 years ago(January 20, 2017 03:44 PM)
Cogito ergo sum.
All the physical parts are constantly changing. I might look the same as I did a little while back but all those visible cells have been replaced. It's the model, the functioning, that matters.
All roads lead to truth if you're willing to travel honestly. -
gladoscake — 9 years ago(January 20, 2017 08:29 PM)
Cogito ergo sum.
What?
All the physical parts are constantly changing. I might look the same as I did a little while back but all those visible cells have been replaced. It's the model, the functioning, that matters.
You misunderstand, I didn't mean what defines your physical existence, I meant, what defines you as a living, breathing, feeling, thing, what of your contributions and achievements? what do you hope to contribute to the Universe? Hopefully that makes more sense. -
skyhawk0 — 9 years ago(January 20, 2017 09:24 PM)
Cogito ergo sum
means "I think, therefore I am."
What I contribute and hope to is an ongoing, ever-changing map. Projects I've been involved in in the past year include ones I've never have dreamed of, even just months before.
That model, that essential who-I-am, the functioning, is not a map I have to lay on the table. And if it didn't surprise me, well, the functioning wouldn't be anywhere as good. The newness is what drives us much of the time, after all.
All roads lead to truth if you're willing to travel honestly. -
harpon-1 — 9 years ago(January 20, 2017 05:36 PM)
My spirit and lack of guile in a place that very much DISRESPECTS such a thing.
My ability to see malice aforethought as a lack of god.
That someone like me sees a living hell daily,
defines who I am in relationship with God and the infinite universe -
gladoscake — 9 years ago(January 20, 2017 08:23 PM)
My brain matter and the consciousness that it produces.
Wait, if I'm getting this right, you say you impact the world through the sole purpose of existence? what of achievements? choices? being an influence to others? I didn't say 'what defines your existence' I meant you, as feeling, breathing, living being. -
micCee — 9 years ago(January 20, 2017 09:18 PM)
No, you're getting this wrong. I think that you could have phrased your question better, in that case. I see that I'm not the only person to have interpreted the question differently from how you intended for it to be interpreted. You could have asked 'what defines your role in society' or something like that.
That said, I'm not sure that my answer would change much. It's roughly the same as 'my thoughts and actions', which is the answer that you accepted from another poster.
It could be a balloon. It could be Franky. It could be very fresh and clean. It could be those ways.