How do you know you are you?

Answer 1

I woke up this morning as myself and I haven't gone anywhere all day! So, how could I possibley be anyone else?

Answer 2

If I keep track and monitor my actions and make comparisons, I do get the feeling I'm me.

1. I remember Descartes' quote, "I think, therefore, I AM."
But that just tells me I exist.
2. I look out from these eyes and see the world before me and a body appears to be attached to these eyes. Same hands, same feet, etc.
3. I look in a mirror and the same face keeps popping up all the time, minute changes, due to wear and tear of daily living.
4. These other bodies keep calling me the same thing and I have an urge to respond.
5. I keep responding in the same patterns (habits?) over and over again.
6. These thoughts called memory keep coming to me and they are the same ones over and over again. I try to change them but they keep coming back the same.
7. Sometimes I think I am a computer program executing a loop over and over again, but being slowly corrupted by the wearing away of bytes by the magnetic fields of the nano volts which surge through the circuitry.
8. I think it may be the repetitiveness of my life and responses I receive from outside stimuli.
9. There is an old Indian saying, "You can't cross the same river twice." So following that line of thinking, I am not the person I was five minutes ago.
10. I believe I am me because (In terms of statistical prediction) I am following a trend.

Just my take on the Philosophical Journey.
As Einstien may have said, "It's all relative."

Answer 3

You cannot know who you are unless you are a perfect "observer" otherwise you perceptions will be distorted.

Since a perfect observer must be totally objective he cannot have a conscience (because that would be subjective) therefore he(it) will not be a person.

You, as a person, cannot be a perfect observer so you'll never know if you are you.

Hope I'm not a party breaker... :) Enjoy your "life" while you still can. It could be somebody else's.and he might want it back :))

Answer 4

Well, that's the question. isn't it?
to be honest, all of the metaphysical blather back and forth comes down to a simple question: when I close my eyes or leave the room, do you cease to exist? If so, then it doesn't really matter what you think - LOL. Seriously though, if you cease to exist when I no longer see or think about you, then it becomes a narcissistic matrix-style existence. It is self-involvement taken to its utter, morbid extreme.
If however you exist outside of my consciousness, then it simply means that we are more than our physical selves, able to contemplate an existence where we are neither a central character nor intrinsic to its fabric.

Answer 5

Familiarity with my biological presence within myself?
Gee, I know what I mean, but how does one describe that?
Why did you have to pick such a doozy?
I have just always been the thought process I know of as myself. It is contained in this biological structure who's dna is unique to itself, my shell or casing. The case changes with time, but is still intrinsically me and I know every segment of it. The thought process may change it's effervescent and ethereal 'crust' but the core paradigm is and always has been me. I still feel like the same me inside of 20 years ago in a littler body surrounded by huger people. I don't change. My opinions and features might, but I remain me.

Answer 6

Freud would say it is purely a matter of ego. He divided the mind into three parts: The Ego, The Id, and The Subconscious.
It is the ego that defines sense of self. This is a primary difference between us and non-sentient animals.

Answer 7

uuuuuuuuuuummmmmmmmmmmm tuffy ......
becuz u have ur own personality and ur own different sidez of ur self
and even ur own clothes . and u have ur own friendz that luv u 4 who U r .
i mean if u wanted tooo u could cange ur outside but u cant change what iz inside ur heart or ur true self . u just cant . that iz how i know im the only rebecca elizabeth glover , and i accept that , that iz who i will be 4 the rest of my life even when my body iz put into the ground and i have a tomb stone above my head. it will say rebecca elizabeth glover .

Answer 8

By being secure with who I have been and taking personal responsibility for all my actions both good and bad. This way I know what I have done and where I have come from and this makes me, me.

Answer 9

I'm not me. You are me and I invent you in my imagination. Everything you know about yourself is really what I know about you and you just think you know it because I want you to but I don't know I'm doing it because I am You.

(So you better be nice to me)

Answer 10

It's just an assumption. We are never our true selves because of our uncontrolled emotions and desires. We know that we can be better than what we are.

So if you will, our true selves, are our expectations of ourselves, and our revelations are what we are on the surface.

Answer 11

Being joyful that that particular knowing does not exist within me, perhaps, that makes me I am that I am.Why do I have to know about it? Enough to know that I am not something or someone else.Period