Self identity essay

Document Type:Essay

Subject Area:Philosophy

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Everyone has a unique character different from another person. How a person identifies themselves from birth till they die is something enclosed in their personality. This is the combination of the genes from the parents and the environment that they are brought up or they end up in. So an individual can be like their parents but the environment can produce another version of them that cannot be attributed to their origins. This is because of the social and cultural interactions that shape a person from early childhood, teenage life, mid-life and old age. The priesthood dream was never realized. Here I am today doing a Philosophy research paper when I wanted to be in some band singing my heart out while touring countries and meeting people from various places.

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It is life. That is what I have come to conclude. Maybe in a few years, I will be another different person altogether because I have realized that we become what society is serving us. He asks a question that his brain is in Texas while he commits a crime in California, where would he be charged? (Dennett 301 ). I think he will be charged where the body robbed the bank. Daniel looks at “himself” as the brain, he asserts that one’s self is in his brain and not the body. His question who am I according to the essay (Dennett 300) is in a tube, after the surgery to remove his brain, while the body is looking at him. This explains that one is whatever he thinks he is.

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