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Who we are?

How you think about your self?

By Ameera BasheerPublished 2 years ago 3 min read
Who we are?
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Everybody has felt nostalgia at some point- that sentimental desire or affection for the past. It is a moving experience that signals the passage of time and serves as a reminder of the person we once were but are no longer. It can frequently feel as like we are seeing a stranger living a life and having a sense of self that are nearly unrecognizable when we look back, even just a year. However, this individual was obviously us, and obviously, we are also us at this very moment. But who are we, then? How do we become who we are? What similarities exist between our current selves and the selves we were ten years ago? If we think about our younger self who was enterally different person. Then who was him? can we change again ? what will make who we are now? The perspectives of who are we can always changing?

We might start by thinking about our body while attempting to define what makes us who we are. However, the majority of us don't actually believe that our bodies are the main source of our sense of identity. If we think our body is we are if transplant our eyes then can we change? then what defined who we are? Most of us identify more with our brain than with our bodies or with our situations. But where in the brain is "us" located? Most of us would not be able to identify with most of the components and functions of the brain, which is an incredibly complex organ.

Our memory is likely the most fundamental factor that contributes to our sense of continuity over the course of our lives. To conceive that we would still be our authentic selves if we lost it seems to be the most challenging. But what does that imply for those who suffer from severe long-term memory loss, such as some persons who have Alzheimer's disease? Do they cease to be themselves? Do they not possess a self anymore? Who are they, if so?

According to neuroscientific thinking, the lack of a brain region where everything comes together to form an ego or self supports the idea that there is no distinct self. The self appears to be nothing more than a specific form of illusion. Everything we deliberately and unknowingly engage with is in the process of becoming into an emergent phenomena with a non-central inconsistent evolution.

Being who you are is always becoming who you are. Being someone else is a constant process of being yourself. In the end, there is only a process of finding and becoming, nothing fixed or defined.

These concepts and issues have persisted throughout human history all across the world, from contemporary neuroscience to the Buddha, Hinduism's Advaita Vedanta, to the ancient Greek thinkers Heraclitus and Plato, and everywhere in between. People have battled to identify that someone for as long as they have realized they are someone.

The strangest, most confusing, and most wonderful aspect of the human experience is ultimately having this sense of self. This gift of selfhood, which is an illusory contradictory experience of something and nothing, of experiencer and experiences, and the union of both, is given to everyone of us. Perhaps the only thing we can and should aim to accomplish is to make our own sentences as beautiful as possible, punctuated with an exclamation mark and filled with the rhythm of poetry.

In conclusion, we create our own reality and sense of ourself. we can define who we are from neuroscience, philosophy, and different culture. But ultimately who we are is an illusion.

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