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OftenBen  ·  3728 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: The Mystery of Personal Identity

    "The child I was is not so different from the person I am. In fact, I am that child, even the prelinguistic one. I am also the adult and all the points in between."

I alternate between the authors view and your own. There are moments when I'm certain that I'm still the same bold 11 year old being rolled into a surgical suite to have part of his heart cut out. In others, I imagine that if a young OB could meet current OB, he would be terrified and sad at what he had become, and I can't comprehend how I got to where I am.

This needs some further examination I think :/