Idea

[andrewducker]

While chatting to Mike (currently writing AI for a PS2 game I can't talk about), I came out with:

If I could take all of your personality facets and point to the point on your genes where they came from, or pinpoint the moment in time where they stem from, would you feel more or less like a person?

Which I think requires a bit of thinking about, and has potential as a character/story hook

Comments

[broin.livejournal.com]

Nyeh, ideas are boring. Completion is the difficult thing.

Go write a song. :)

Completion is unnecessary

[andrewducker]

It's an idea. Ideas are cool. Putting them into a character, story, song, book, whatever can make ideas palatable for when you're trying to indoctrinate others with them, but it's the basic idea that's generally the most interesting to me.

And it's an interesting standalone question. I've (in other forms) asked it of myself on numerous occasions. Does the fact that I know that I am made up of the sum of my parts, and that each of my impulses has an origin that could be pointed out, diminish me?

[smoore.livejournal.com]

If I could take all of your personality facets and point to the point on your genes where they came from, or pinpoint the moment in time where they stem from, would you feel more or less like a person?

It, of course, also brings up the interesting question of where personality really stems from... is it in genes? Is it a result of how the synapses and folds in your cerebrum formed? Or does it have to do with environment? Would you be a different person if you were brought up under one set of parents versus another? This, of course, is by no means a new set of questions, or a new argument at all, but your post reminded me of it :)