“Who am I?” stands as one of the iconic questions of philosophy, alongside “What is the meaning of life?” and “Is there a God?”
Philosophers throughout history have addressed this question. Rene Descartes suggested that our mind and thoughts are our true identity. John Locke’s criterion for personal identity was self-consciousness, which is the ability to reflect upon yourself. For Locke, possessing memories is what makes you certain of who you are. David Hume dismissed notions of having a “self,” arguing that what we think of as “the self” is nothing more than a bundle of perceptions. We take these perceptions and recombine them into meaning and substance based on our previous experience.
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