In other words... "If you lived my life, would you be the same?"

I was thinking about it yesterday after shower. I had another topic to add to the debate section, but one is enough for now.

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"When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace." Jimi Hendrix

Well, I'd say that certainly our surroundings influence who we are, and that includes the people we grow up knowing. However, I wouldn't say that personality is completely dependent on surroundings. Maybe I'll write more later but that's my really quick two cents for now.

we'd all live a different reality adjacent to our own, but it would never be known what would happen on said circumstances.

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I'd say it's more "influenced" by our surroundings.

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It's surroundings, genetics, etc. A little bit of everything, but not entirely anything.

This is pretty much an empirical fact actually. There have been all kinds of studies related to the different aspects of this question (such as with identical twins and what not).

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Do you think this also relates to existence of soul?

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"When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace." Jimi Hendrix

wbhuh?

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well if we're not just empty shells that get filled with impulses from the outer world which would result in our actions, doesn't that say there's also an individual soul present in the consciousness, or is that just a factor of randomness that plays part in the course of our actions?

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"When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace." Jimi Hendrix

What do you mean by a soul?

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...a soul?

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"When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace." Jimi Hendrix

It means different things to different people. Personally, I don't believe anything external to the body exists, but you probably think differently.

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Determined - no. Influenced, certainly.

Some elements are genetic, such as intelligence, but whether someone lives up to their genetic potential is based on their life as well.

Traits such as likes and dislikes are likely to have a larger influenced component, but there have still been many studies showing genetic predispositions within all sorts of tastes and interests.

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Living isn't easy when you're far away from home...

I was recently in a conversation with a man who is a father 3 times over, and he mentioned that all of his children showed the personality they still have very early on, like in their first week. As you can imagine, having the same upbringing should make their personalities similar, but it doesn't. So living anothers life will not make you him.

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Well, i believe that if each shell is a person, and whatever lives in each shell is a soul, then after one shell is used up, the soul would go to the next shell.

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Someone's personality could only be majorly influenced in development, me thinks. Maybe as time and surrounding changes there might be some small differ in their personality.

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