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Defining yourself seems impossible. Can there be a single thing that defines you? You may have interests or occupations that relate to you, but does that define you as a person? What, then, makes you who you are?

Most days I wonder what living really is. It seems that living is something that just happens but really it happens to you. Can you influence what living is or does everyone experience the same things? It feels like I am dictated by what living throws at me. Normally in...

It is hard to put into words what life is. Can you define meaning from existence if that existence continues without you? Or is existence individual? If you frame existence as personal, you could value your significance. If existence is plural, existence is not dependent on you. Although, the plurality...

…is dependent on context. It is dynamic, with a continual relation to external and internal forces. How then do I behave as an independent person? My thoughts and feelings are not conscious, but afterthoughts. I would like to believe that I am autonomous, but I doubt myself when I think...

The present self is based on past and future experiences/expectations. These experiences are influenced by nature/nurture and present motives. Although the newborn is a blank slate, the experienced adult is not. Is there a moral system that does not contain biases?