Who are you?

"The illiterate of the 21st century will not be the ones who can't read or write but the ones who can't learn, relearn and unlearn" -written by someone who I forgot.

Whenever I think of someone in my head, I always visualize their face especially when I am differentiating one person from another. But it doesn’t stop there sometimes. Sometimes I have to go further and recall their voice, gesture, name and other tangible features that I distinguish him/her by. Although it hasn’t happened in real life, what if what happened in the movie hot chick (rob Schneider) were to happen to my KLGO and some guy thug? Who is my gf Kath? Is she this old thug or is she still this young girl? Although this hypothetical event causes confusion, it is nonetheless an absurd thing to think about for some people because this doesn’t happen in real life. But I must contest that serious thought must be put into this for something similar, though not as exaggerating, does happen in real life.

An example that I can give is Terry Shiavo. Since Terry had her permanent accident back in the 90s, was she still the same person from that day until the day that they stopped feeding her or was it someone else or not a person at all? There will be more disagreements on the answer to this question compared to which one is my gf Kath since the exaggeration is not as great as that of the movie hot chick causing it to be more confusing. From a scientific point of view, terry should still be the same person. From a human point of view, it’s a little more confusing. Everything tangible about her (face, features, blood, bones genes) are still intact but the intangible things about her (characteristics, personality, humanity etc.) seem to disappear. From a scientific point of view, two identical twins are more similar (or more at one) than any other siblings but from a human point of view, two identical twins are as distinct as they are with their other siblings simply because the intangibles between them are still different.

Base on this premise, maybe we can narrow down the question on who you are to are you the tangible or the intangible? To my readers, I hope you give me your answers or thoughts to this. I will wait for your feedback and leave you with some quotes which conform with my opinion for now :)

"What is man? Man is a soul. What is a soul? A soul is a relation that reflects itself to itself." -Kierkegaard

"I think therefore I am." -Descartes

"Underneath this mask is a face. I am no more this face than I am the muscles beneath this face or the bones beneath this muscles." -V

"Beneath this mask is a flesh. Beneath this flesh is an idea. And ideas Mr. Creedy are bulletproof." -V