eli_sennesh comments on Understanding Who You Really Are - LessWrong

7 Post author: ozziegooen 02 January 2015 08:44AM

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Comment author: [deleted] 02 January 2015 05:37:20PM *  0 points [-]

No, that assumes there is such a thing as "your identity" beyond what yourself and others ascribe to you. There's really only just your causal history.

Besides, psychological experiments show that when talking about others rather than themselves, people tend to identify "personal identity" and "moral character or alignment". So that answers that.

Comment author: peter_hurford 03 January 2015 02:17:54AM 2 points [-]

Reduce further -- "what part of the character traits that you and others see yourself as possessing do you value?"