What are you?
Are you the physical body?
Or are you the collection of neuronal synapses which gives your brain a specific topography?
Or are you the thoughts present inside your mind?
We are neither of the above. Why, you wonder?
Here's why, because,
Every human eats food, which replaces the biomass already present in the cells, which in-turn make up our body. It has been established that over a period of 8-10 years, every body cell gets replaced with a brand new cell. Every cell/atom in our body is younger than 10 years. So, it means that body can be ruled out as the candidate for 'what' we are!
Scientist claim that the memory in our mind comes from the synaptic junctions in our brain. There is a phenomenon which occur in our brain called synaptic plasticity, which makes the synapse strengthen or loosen up depending upon the use or dis-use of that neuronal pathway. So, it means that over a time, our sypanses change and modify depending on what we experience and how we act to the stimulus. So again, one more candidate goes through the drain.
Have you ever tried to catch a glimpse of your tweets or Facebook statuses from say a couple of years ago? Try reading them, you will feel embarrassed of your own cyber footprint! At least I felt that way. You can even look at your old diary, I you write one. I was so ashamed of my writings that I have stopped writing one! Your thoughts are dynamic, they come and influence you at a particular juncture of age or time. I being in my early twenty have been on a wave of ideas which came and went as I completed my adolescence.
In short, not even your thoughts define you. The ideas, motive and viewpoints which we hold so dear to ourselves doesn't describe who you are! Our thoughts are ephemeral, but we still are the same person who `walked on earth' a couple of year ago.
Let's introspect and try to figure out who we are "really".
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