What is the personality of a person?

Individuality of thinking, at least. It is very difficult or completely impossible to determine how a person thinks, his cause-and-effect logic, attitude to something, his tastes and desires. And also the physical structure, starting with the DNA and the structure of the protein. DNA is a damn long combination of genes, made up of a terribly long evolutionary process. Plus the influence of the environment and upbringing from such complex and individual people

In everything! .. Especially:
Ability to express your opinion ...
Ability to use invaluable own life experience ...

The experience of mistakes is so important and valuable:
You can only learn from them.
A mistake will give rise to reflection,
Awareness of your mistakes will come.

All these phenomena will appear as a lesson
And in experience they will take their due place.
The impossible will come close, far - With a reliable name: wisdom call t.

In someone else's mistake, what profit do we have?
What good is it to us in what happened to another,
Not knowing all the feelings and paths bends,
All the multitudes of mysterious knowledge intimate ?

Our life consists entirely of mistakes?
This invention was given to us by ourselves!
We just did not go according to plan and our step was unsteady.
But everything is fixable - we create again .

And, having understood the reason for the oversight, we
Show ingenuity, resourcefulness, courage.
We understand that we are the chiefs of our destiny,
And we can hone our skills.

Dear ones, never give up.
Are you wrong? Not scary! Analysis and forward!
And fell, hurt - well, well? Get up!
A losing streak will prepare you for takeoff.

http://www.stihi.ru/2015/05/11/7172

In the book of the neurophysiologist-popularizer Vileyanur Ramachandran "The Birth of Mind", one of the chapters ("Neurology - a new philosophy") is entirely devoted to this issue. Here are two quotes from there:

"What exactly does 'I' mean? As it turned out, its characteristic has five components:

-Continuity: the feeling of an unbreakable thread stretches through our entire experience, accompanied by feelings of the present, past and future.

-The idea of ​​the unity of “I.” Each of us feels as a whole, as one person.

-The feeling of being placed in our body.

- Having free will. I can shake my finger, but I cannot shake my nose or your finger.

- Self-awareness. Any of these aspects can be distorted in different ways in brain diseases, and this gives reason to believe that "I" includes not one, but many components. "I" combines various phenomena. For example, if I stimulate your right parietal cortex with the help of electrodes (when you are conscious and awake) , you will instantly feel that you are floating under the ceiling, observing your own body lying below. Material embodiment is one of the axiomatic grounds your "I" - will be temporarily canceled. And this is true for all aspects of "I" listed above. Each of them can be selectively affected in brain disorders. "

" Our brain as a whole is a simulator that needs to create working virtual simulations of the real world, according to which we can act. Within these imitations, we need to create models of the mind of other people, since we, as primates, are extremely social creatures. We must do this in such a way as to be able to foresee their behavior. Moreover, for this internal imitation to be complete, it must contain not only the models of the mind of other people, but also the model itself, that is, its permanent attributes - which it can and cannot do. It is likely that one of these modeling abilities evolved first and then set the stage for the second. Or - as is often the case in evolution - both abilities developed together, enriching each other. "

On the one hand, this is our data, on the other, our experience.

When we are born, we already have inherent features of the nervous system that make us (I emphasize) predisposed (but no more) to such things as conservatism or positive perception of new experiences, cognitive simplicity or complexity, irascibility or poise and many other parameters.

There are also more radical cases: congenital pathology deprives us of the chance to choose whether to develop a predisposition or not - it becomes a predestination. I'm talking not only about genetics, but also about intrauterine and birth trauma - all this leaves an indelible mark on our nervous system.

Traumas (including organic lesions) at an early age are very close to this, but after birth. A little further - the experience gained at this age.

This is a particularly important part for most mentally healthy people, or at most neurotized - because before that we talked about strongly pathologizing factors. And we all have childhood: the fullness of the family and its well-being, the level of attention to the child from the parents, the first experiences of social contacts, upbringing, friends and acquaintances. In general, everything related to the social environment in the period up to about 20 years. It's time for especially active experiments and self-testing.

And then our experience goes on throughout our future life, in which important events also happen, and they change us: the birth of children, the death of loved ones, moving to another country ( a radical change in the social environment), etc.

Finally, there are age-related factors: the famous midlife crises and mental rigidity due to aging.

If you look from the point of view of describing the attributes of an object that can explain the uniqueness of the same object, then, for the most part, each of us has an equivalent.

However, at the same time, the only thing, in my opinion What is unique in a person is that we cannot see or know deeply: a certain protocol or a set of knowledge, skills, skills based on the experience gained from memories. Of course, events that often happen to us can converge with similar events in other people, but they are always separated by how the behavior manifested during the event influenced the events, due to aspects of upbringing and others. The chronological sequence always separates us.

We are separated by what we are from what we are now, at a given moment.

self-awareness. [awful to know]

everyone who has an instinct for self-preservation has it. in religion you will call it the soul and not self-awareness. perhaps then they began to talk about the soul, asking a similar question, many centuries ago.