Inversion

[Salty Booger]

I see it pretty much as personality or character, which most of us would probably not want to lose even if we might like to alter such, even if the psychological definition of such is more specific.

Would the analogy of a software package seem appropriate, one that has been written over a lifetime?

 

[Salty Booger]

To which "I", in your view, does the ego provide identity?

I think that depends on the individual. Certainly we can wear our egos on our bodies.

 

[Mock Turtle]

Would the analogy of a software package seem appropriate, one that has been written over a lifetime?

Probably. I certainly think that it can be altered (amended, updated, or overwritten) and often depends upon our earliest experiences as to how we turn out as much as what we are born with. And which science seems to show. I seem to be one of those who would doubt the existence of an 'I' without a life to go with such - that is, being born and experiencing life - rather than some disembodied concept of such.

 

[Salty Booger]

Probably. I certainly think that it can be altered (amended, updated, or overwritten) and often depends upon our earliest experiences as to how we turn out as much as what we are born with. And which science seems to show. I seem to be one of those who would doubt the existence of an 'I' without a life to go with such - that is, being born and experiencing life - rather than some disembodied concept of such.

I tend to agree. You can't experience life or being without the hardware--mind and body.

 

[firedragon]

I, the Jury.

 

[Etritonakin]

"I" is a point within the overall reality around which relatively-independent perceptive and decisive abilities are arranged. As such, an "I" need not be able to understand the concept of self or be self-aware in a complex way in order to exist -but only to be aware of that fact.

I am presently considering whether God (the "most high") -though technically eternal -might have developed to the point of being able to say I AM -at which point God would be able to say he "was" this or that.

For example, we might say "I am a human and I was once a zygote" because we recognize that point as/as near the beginning of our "self" -a logical separation from all else -even though we did not have the same capabilities at that point.

I believe God to be the sum of all things -so we as "individuals" would literally be a part of God/the whole which was given relatively-independent abilities/self determination.