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I realized I had no true self when I was 13, and over my life this has developed into a theme. I feel as though I'm a series of masks, or personalities, all the way down into the abyss; if you try to uncover the truth of me, you'll find nothing there at all.
Underneath all the masks of your phenotype, there's always your genotype -- your one true stable identity. Not a void, but three billion base pairs of wonderful information.
This is one way of defining identity, but isn't what I mean - I don't feel an identity with my base pairs no matter how much I try; and even if I did, that sense of identity wouldn't be 'objective'.
"I'm not real and neither are you" is how one friend put it. I've also thought of myself as an algorithm playing itself out, or more poetically a symphony trying to find a melody.
If evolutionary psychology has taught me anything, it’s that the “durable” self that resides below what is constructed, is violent, selfish and prone to undesirable behaviour. Not sure that’s comforting in the search for identity.
"one true stable identity"....have we debunked the theory of epigenetic effect?
I'm familiar with the complexity of the genotype to phenotype mapping, thanks.
How do bacteria cells that outnumber those carrying your genotype fit into this?
Drops mic.
Hmm, 4 ingredients to identity: genetic code time/space env social env will
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