I Can Identify A Self - 1145 Words

I can identify a â€Å"self† that was me at birth, is me now, and will be me at death. Hume explains self as this; â€Å"we can track our changes throughout our mental life from day to day, and this gives us a sense of connectedness that we call ‘self.’† Hume argued that all there is to ‘self’ is one perception after another. Although I do not have an awareness of when I was born, my first awareness was my 6th birthday and the one person that I wanted to be there did not show, needless to say I was a very sad and disappointed 6 year old that day. If that person had shown, would my perception of â€Å"self† be different today or have reshaped my â€Å"self† in any way? I often think about the perceptions I have of what has happened in my life, would these†¦show more content†¦I am who I am and I will continue to be me. I still have the same temperament that I had when I was younger however I have learned how to put myself into time out so that I do not lose control. My beliefs have become stronger, or more opinionated which I think comes from experiences and education. I have brown hair, now a days it comes from a box. I have brown eyes, which need a little extra help to see. I am still 5’10† although people think I am taller than that. I still feel like I can fit into the same clothes I wore in high school, until I look in the mirror and get the dreadful reality check, after all I have had five children and I enjoy rich foods and nice wines, preferably Cabs. As in John Perry’s The First Night, Miller talks about the sameness of body and soul/mind/conscience/identity in trying to provide Weirob, whose body is dying but her mind is still sharp, with a sense of hope and to persuade her of her survival after death is possible. Weirob uses the analogy of a river and how the water is different each time you come to it although by the physical appearance you still know it to be is the same river and with that Weirob goes on to say that even though each time you visit with a friend, you know it is the same friend by the physical appearance, even though over time has had cellular changes, but is it the same soul