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Are you born with your personality?
March 16, 2014 at 10:58 pm
(1) Personalities are an emergent property of brain chemistry.
(2) You are born with your brain chemistry.
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.:. (3) You are born with your personality.
(Concession: I have done no research to support this syllogism, I have just always thought it was an interesting question to ponder.  )
Thoughts?
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RE: Are you born with your personality?
March 16, 2014 at 11:12 pm
(This post was last modified: March 16, 2014 at 11:17 pm by xr34p3rx.)
(March 16, 2014 at 10:58 pm)Clueless Morgan Wrote: (1) Personalities are an emergent property of brain chemistry.
(2) You are born with your brain chemistry.
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.:. (3) You are born with your personality.
(Concession: I have done no research to support this syllogism, I have just always thought it was an interesting question to ponder. )
Thoughts?
well in a sense, yes. When you are born you do things by your own thought but as time changes your "original" personality is shifted. So you are technically born with an original personality but it changes...
EDIT: But then comes unavoidable changes like puberty where guys are always thinking about sex... and they start to make penis jokes... so its like a roller-coaster ride when it comes to personality
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RE: Are you born with your personality?
March 16, 2014 at 11:24 pm
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I think you are born with a "base" personality which is why no matter how old you get or change a person always feels like themself.
But I suppose my thought is more philosophy than science.
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RE: Are you born with your personality?
March 17, 2014 at 5:02 am
I think both, your brain has a unique structure and your personality is a result of events and memories of your life .
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RE: Are you born with your personality?
March 17, 2014 at 5:57 am
(March 16, 2014 at 10:58 pm)Clueless Morgan Wrote: (1) Personalities are an emergent property of brain chemistry.
(2) You are born with your brain chemistry.
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.:. (3) You are born with your personality.
(Concession: I have done no research to support this syllogism, I have just always thought it was an interesting question to ponder. )
Thoughts?
What is defined as "personality"?
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RE: Are you born with your personality?
March 17, 2014 at 6:10 am
I'm born with the part of my personality which I am born with, while I acquire those aspects of it which are acquired later through the sum of my experiences, later. I hope I made myself clear.
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RE: Are you born with your personality?
March 17, 2014 at 6:11 am
(March 17, 2014 at 6:10 am)Alex K Wrote: I'm born with the part of my personality which I am born with, while I acquire those aspects of it which are acquired later through the sum of my experiences, later. I hope I made myself clear.
No you didn't
What IS a personality?
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RE: Are you born with your personality?
March 17, 2014 at 6:17 am
(March 17, 2014 at 6:11 am)KichigaiNeko Wrote: (March 17, 2014 at 6:10 am)Alex K Wrote: I'm born with the part of my personality which I am born with, while I acquire those aspects of it which are acquired later through the sum of my experiences, later. I hope I made myself clear.
No you didn't
What IS a personality?
It sounds like a terrible attempt at simplified categorization of the complicated thing that is a person. Anything you can put in a few sentences is just a superficial approximation of how someone will react to certain stimuli including the emotional response, the amount of trust given to people in different circumstances, the propensity to take initiative or be passive, and interests. That's about it I'd say.
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RE: Are you born with your personality?
March 17, 2014 at 7:09 am
(March 17, 2014 at 6:11 am)KichigaiNeko Wrote: (March 17, 2014 at 6:10 am)Alex K Wrote: I'm born with the part of my personality which I am born with, while I acquire those aspects of it which are acquired later through the sum of my experiences, later. I hope I made myself clear.
No you didn't
What IS a personality?
Me.
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RE: Are you born with your personality?
March 17, 2014 at 7:41 am
(March 17, 2014 at 7:09 am)max-greece Wrote: (March 17, 2014 at 6:11 am)KichigaiNeko Wrote: No you didn't
What IS a personality?
Me.
But just what is that max?
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