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the costume you forgot you put on, now answering to your name
means The set of qualities, beliefs, and characteristics that define who a person is, distinguishing them from everyone else.
from From Latin 'identitas,' built on 'idem' meaning 'the same' — the same self persisting through time, the you of yesterday recognizably the you of today. It came into English in the late 16th century through Late Latin, originally a philosopher's tool for talking about sameness and continuity, long before it became a thing people 'found' or 'lost.'
- cell turnover
- most of your atoms weren't here a decade ago
- theseus problem
- replace every part and you're still you, somehow
- memory drift
- each recall rewrites the memory you're recalling
- name origin
- identity comes from Latin idem, meaning the same
- split brain
- sever the brain's halves, get two wills
captain james cook — british explorer who mapped the pacific ocean in the 1770s, fundamentally shaping european understanding of world geography
joan of arc — french military leader (1412-1431) whose identity as the 'maid of orleans' galvanized the hundred years' war
tutankhamun — egyptian pharaoh whose tomb identity was revealed in 1922, transforming archaeology and egyptology