Who are you?

[CryingLuci]

Do you think it's possible to truly know yourself, or are we all just piecing together reflections from others, memories, and assumptions? At what point does the person we think we are become the person we actually are?

 

[Leiot]

The Buddhists talk about enlightenment as waking up and seeing things for what they truly are. I think it's possible; I just don't think I'll ever make it.

 

[BeijaFlor]

 

[Pluto]

 

[Hollowman]

I'm nobody.

 

[ijustwishtodie]

I'm just a by product of my brain

 

[DarkRange55]

Do you think it's possible to truly know yourself, or are we all just piecing together reflections from others, memories, and assumptions? At what point does the person we think we are become the person we actually are?

Do you think it's possible to truly know yourself

You might be a simulation

, or are we all just piecing together reflections from others, memories, and assumptions?

Yes

At what point does the person we think we are become the person we actually are?

You are what you do. A man is defined by his actions, not by his memory (Kuato).

I'm just a by product of my brain

Yes, interacting with inputs that appear to come from an amazing external universe that may be part of an even more glorious omniverse.

 

[ZeroM24]

Flesh, bone, brain.

 

[Warlord's Pulse]

Well, it's just useless to think in that way. It's like those pseudointellectuals quoting Nietzsche stating that love for another person actually doesn't exist. Well, it can be true, so what? It doesn't change the fact that is a good thing

 

[Thisisnotaname]

Ask carl jung to know who I am

 

[EvisceratedJester]

Who you are is defined by your genetics and brain structure and ways in which your experiences shape your preexisting neural structures, blah blah blah. While you can come to know yourself there is a limitation to introspection, yada yada yada.

Anyway, here is a picture that represents who I am deep down inside

Spoiler

 

[Dr Iron Arc]