I remember a couple weeks ago we talked about this exact thing in class. How do we really know our memories our real? Or how we know what person we are? Locke is trying to say when we remember things we did 30 minutes ago and see us in that memory, we assume, well that is me, so that is my identity. Sometimes our older memories get confused with stories other people tell us or we see old pictures. Our memories are always getting tampered with. Personally, I believe I am me because I can remember exactly what I was doing 5 seconds ago, typing this blog and the proof is right before me. So therefore, this is my identity.
Tuesday, April 1, 2008
Locke - Book 2 Self Identity
"Another occasion the mind often takes of comparing, is, the very being of things, when considering anything as existing at any determined time and place, we compare it with itself existing at another time, and thereon form the ideas of identity and diversity." (Locke 241)
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I feel that its like this, basically our mind id a little more tricky, Memories happen in the mind, all the events in our head are scrambled all over your head and you have to try and figure all the memories that are scrambled and put them into a story.
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