"Throughout our lives, we come to inhabit the seven layers of identity, often interpolating between them and constantly changing within each. And yet somehow, despite this ever-shifting seedbed of personhood, we manage to think of ourselves as concrete selves — our selves.
Hardly any perplexity of human existence is more fascinating than the continuity of personal identity — the question of what makes you and your childhood self the “same” person, despite a lifetime of change, from your cells to your values.
Harvard psychologist Daniel Gilbert captured this paradox perfectly: “Human beings are works in progress that mistakenly think they’re finished.”
The Ship of Theseus: A Brilliant Ancient Thought Experiment Exploring What Makes You You
https://www.brainpickings.org/2016/03/08/plutarch-the-ship-of-theseus-ted-ed/
Hardly any perplexity of human existence is more fascinating than the continuity of personal identity — the question of what makes you and your childhood self the “same” person, despite a lifetime of change, from your cells to your values.
Harvard psychologist Daniel Gilbert captured this paradox perfectly: “Human beings are works in progress that mistakenly think they’re finished.”
The Ship of Theseus: A Brilliant Ancient Thought Experiment Exploring What Makes You You
https://www.brainpickings.org/2016/03/08/plutarch-the-ship-of-theseus-ted-ed/
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