Douglas_Reay comments on Understanding Who You Really Are

[Douglas_Reay]

I’ve always thought of that question as being more about the nature of identity itself.

If you lost your memories, would you still be the same being? If you compare a brain at two different points in time, is their ‘identity’ a continuum, or is it the type of quantity where there is a single agreed definition of “same” versus “not the same”?

See:

157. [Similarity Clusters](http://​​lesswrong.com/​​lw/​​nj/​​similarity_clusters)
158. [Typicality and Asymmetrical Similarity](http://​​lesswrong.com/​​lw/​​nk/​​typicality_and_asymmetrical_similarity)
159. [The Cluster Structure of Thingspace](http://​​lesswrong.com/​​lw/​​nl/​​the_cluster_structure_of_thingspace)

Though I agree that the answer to a question that’s most fundamentally true (or of interest to a philosopher), isn’t necessarily going to be the answer that is most helpful in all circumstances.