Do you remember when you first became you? My daughter described to me precisely the time when her inner narrator or consciousness appeared within their awareness.
I argue we were people with personalities long before we learned language to describe events. Often our thoughts can appear as pictures on the cavern walls of our minds.
In such a way, my cat could consciously deliberate his actions and wait until I left the room to gorge on the chicken bones I left in the trash.
For further reading on cats. Try this source from The Messy Beast
Are You The Same Person Throughout Life?
Now I am approaching my sixth decade and I laugh at myself for still thinking I am the same person.
I see older people on the tour busses in Europe and think, look at all those geezers riding the bus!
I stop laughing when I see my reflection rolling past and looking at me on the same bus!
I still feel like that twelve year old kid i was when my inner narrator appeared on the scene.
Freedom, Religion and Biology
Most of my cells have changed, I have learned a lot from reading the thoughts of others in libraries around the world..
I still remember family telling me I was exactly like my uncle. My uncle suicided the year I was born. I am not sure how he could pass so much along. I never met him.
Personality does persist throughout the ages.
My daughter started out stead, strong, almost stoic. From the moment she could walk and talk, We all wondered.
Where did she get that from? 😉
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