Who are you?

greenblackwhite SG

i am influential

relax_crown SG

3... you control yourself you live for yourself not others Laughing others is just a obstacle you need to overcome

Master -_- SG

I am the master and u all are my slaves Twisted Evil

kristovorus SG

i feel that i am nothing but the product of my experience in the environment i live in.. its easy for me to imagine myself made up of tiny bits of people i met or interacted with in my puny 16 years of existence. every now and then i think over my mannerism of speech and feel that it sounds real familar and probably sounds like 1 of my friends. thats just 1 proof that im influenced by my surroundings easily and i change all the time under that influence :\

Devil1976 SG

Hmm... Somehow very true...?

gigabyte14 SG

i am mourinho and you are my underlings

i am the best and you are the worst

Devil1976 SG

I would number two is often what people wanna believe they are and can be... But in reality, it's difficult not to be influenced by the people around you as humans are more and more social and community creatures...

Devil1976 SG

They say this is a faulty statement... I would say this is somehow a 'partial truth'....? Laughing

Devil1976 SG

So is that a good or sad thing?

Devil1976 SG

Even influential people get influenced by people from time to time..

SGpork SG

me
Rolling Eyes

Bear SG

hey Devil,

looks like you got quite a number of responses. Thought it's a trick question.

I can probably write a whole 30 page essay on this, but I'll spare you. Here's my response. Maybe a little scientific and a little technical. haha can't help it that I'm scientific and technical, because the society made me that way.. haha sounds like I'm being influenced by environment? But had I not had the qualified IQ (a genetic component) I won't be able to comprehend the abstract information at a tertiary insititution. However, even if I had the IQ, I can't be what or who I am today, a student, a father, a mother, an employee, or whoever, unless society has created that position for me.

And the phase "I think, therefore I am" has it's own support and nay-sayers, just that that's used in philosophy to talk about what's the most fundamental unit of self-conscious or the mind.

Devil1976 SG

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I thought it's usage in philosophy has already been proven to be a fallency? Mr. Green

Devil1976 SG

Strictly speaking.. It's not that much of a 'trick question'... Though it's unlikely that anyone would belong purely to 'type 1' or 'type 2'... One's state of mind, belief and condition might likely to allow themselves to place own in either of the 2 categories.... Wink

Bear SG

From what I know. It's true because that provides the basis of consciousness. because if everything is not real. The only thing that you can confirm an existence in your conscious (aka your thoughts). However, it's proven wrong because your thoughts require a sensory from the environment. The saying only goes, I think therefore I am. I can't tell you I'm hot, or cold. I'm nothing or someone or something without knowing something in the environment. You can't be nothing, unless you know there's something. it will be like a blank slate. That's where it breaks down, which then someone proposed that besides a conscious, there needs to be a body. then this debate went on to asking people, so it's the body the drives the conscious or vice-versa, or they interact with each other. Pretty ugly...

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