How much of you is you?

[breadisfunny]

This whole question is stupid guys How much of you is you? What the hell does that even mean? You can only form a personality through the things you experience. If you don't experience anything, you are nothing. There is no existence without the experience of the outside. So it doesn't matter if my personality is formed via YouTube and Twitch, or via philosophical books and deep thinker movies. You are what you consume, there is no "outside" you that is disconnected from your surrounding.

but are we truly ourselves? how do we know we aren't just some simulation run by an outside entity?

[PC2]

but are we truly ourselves? how do we know we aren't just some simulation run by an outside entity?

We don't know, it's an unanswered question. In my personal opinion our default and tentative assumption should be that we live in base reality and not inside of a computer simulation. Pro-simulation arguments are often based on an "appeal to probability" as opposed to giving an actual reason for why we would be in a simulation.

[StayTuned]

but are we truly ourselves? how do we know we aren't just some simulation run by an outside entity?

What does it matter? Do you feel like a simulation?

As long as it's not distinguishable from reality you should simply accept it as reality. There is no point in even asking the question because you cannot prove it in any way

[Venarissa]

Maybe around 20%. I'm very easily manipulated.

mmo-champ is probably at least 5% of me!

[Daedius]

I am not the same person I was seven years ago... for all my cells have been replaced.

Like the Ship of Theseus, replacing all parts... am I still me?!

[lonely zergling]

I'm atleast 88% me. Some days I feel 69% only.

[AeneasBK]

Very little, and it absolves me of responsibility.

[Unholyground]

I am the total sum of everything I have consumed and experienced throughout my life.

[RCA]

What does it matter? Do you feel like a simulation?

As long as it's not distinguishable from reality you should simply accept it as reality. There is no point in even asking the question because you cannot prove it in any way

“I think, therefore I am” immediately popped into my brain. I always felt Descartes was on to something here with that one.

[TEHPALLYTANK]

Everything of me is me, the sources of what comprises "me" as an individual is entirely irrelevant to your question.

[smityx]

32.33%. Repeating of course.

[PC2]

Everything of me is me, the sources of what comprises "me" as an individual is entirely irrelevant to your question.

That's like if I ask you what the meaning of life is and then you say "Everything that is meaningful is the meaning of life". Well yes obviously tautologies are correct, what we're really asking for is a few details that shed light on the topic.

[Shadowferal]

Judging the fact that even identical twins, raised in an identical enviorement have different personalities, i would say that i am 100% myself.

As a twin, I fully agree with this.

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but are we truly ourselves? how do we know we aren't just some simulation run by an outside entity?

Reminds me of this;

[Mihalik]

What if I told you, all of it is you but none of it is your choice?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Determinism

[Vargulf the Happy Husky]

How much of you is you, and how much is the weed?

lmao got em.

OT i'm 10% caffeine, 25% nicotine, 25% alcohol, 30% THC, and 10000000000000000000% HEAVY METAL

[Mayhem]

Maybe around 20%. I'm very easily manipulated.

mmo-champ is probably at least 5% of me!

So are you 100% of mmo-champ then?

Does that make us all a part of you and you all of us?

Are you us?

[Nihilist74]

When I was 17, I took a lot of LSD. After that, I felt like an entirely different person. It changed my perception of the world and myself. I felt like a totally different person after that. Since then, I felt like the same person.

[Venarissa]

So are you 100% of mmo-champ then?

Does that make us all a part of you and you all of us?

Are you us?

https://youtu.be/f9O2Rjn1azc?t=98

[Mayhem]

https://youtu.be/f9O2Rjn1azc?t=98

Sorry, that's just a bit too much self-love for my (your? our?) taste.

My head hurts.

[Aucald]

I am pretty much 100% of myself, which I assume is probably the norm for everyone. Now, what that actually *means* is sometimes a very good question, depending on context. In a vacuum selfdom is easy to reconcile - but when you're confronted with the labyrinth of how you see yourself vs. how others see you, or whenever your personal values collide with those of others is when you ask the real questions.

I recognize myself well enough, but I don't always recognize the reflection of myself I catch from the perspectives of others.