Identity - Who Are We?

What makes us who we are? A conglomeration of memory, experience, appearance, and taste? It feels as if there is more than that, but I find it so difficult to define.

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Category:

Education

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• soul
• Id
• self
• us
• we
• you
• enternal
• internal
• sentience
• me
• identity
• selfhood
• heritage
• being

[lucifers666angel]

I did a presentation about "Identity", and I borrowed a bit from your video. Hope you don't mind.

[JayBellBooks]

@lucifers666angel That's awesome! I'm honored.

[johnetie]

Don't you think identity is an evolving thing? I am not the person I was in college for example. Life has a big impact on who we are. And even if you start out beautiful nobody stays that way, on the outside at least.

[JayBellBooks]

I do think we evolve, that's true, but there are stubborn traits that remain with us despite the changes we go through. That could be an interesting exercise. Taking note of what hasn't changed in us since childhood might be a strong indicator of who we are.

[TreCoolness]

It's good to know that there are educated people here on YouTube. It's really sad that we are judged on our appearance.

[blue2kid3]

uuugg wow you just blew my brain out of my head =) this is great

[eHtuL]

very insightful. i love it. i love your videos i cant stop watching them.

[ATBigger]

pretty kewl my friend ~_~

[Tnuffsaid]

I've often wondered how dramatically my life would be changed if I was not raised in the surroundings I was. and If somhow, my sexuality, my attitude, my emotional state was all effected by how I was raised, or if it is really somthing pre-determined.

[vngu2547]

There's a german word I love, gestalt. We are greater than the sum of our traits.

[nyteskye1978]

I love this Jay. It says so many things I have been thinking lately.

[Hephaestion123]

In other words, as one of my favorite writers put it: "Just as a novelist creates a narrative, a person creates a sense of being. The self is simply our work of art, a fiction created by the brain in order to make sense of its own disunity. We invent ourselves out of our own sensations." -Lehrer

The human brain just invents "the self" so as to over-ride its own inherent contradictions, its disunity, the constant struggle between the opposite lobes designed to disagree with each other.