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Spent most of the previous year coming to terms with power and responsibility - concepts heavily distorted by my upbringing/culture.

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I'm fairly sure that

is coming at this from a more phenomenological point of view.

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So, Identity likely starts from the sense of continued existence in an individual body...

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And continues to interactions and relations with the world. Social interactions would be an abstraction beyond that.

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Precisely. Just a case of using the same words, but addressing an utterly different conceptual space.