Why are you unique? Why has there ever been someone like you before you came into this world? Why will there ever be someone like you after your departure?
Keywords: Human uniqueness; Identical twins’ fingerprints; Spindle nuclear transfer
Broadly, there are two different characters within everybody: the person you think you are, meaning the way you view yourself, and the person people think you are or the way they view you. The concept of self-identity applies to the first case, while social identity applies to the second. But I don't think either of the two can be used to describe uniqueness because we use the way we see ourselves for comparison purposes. On the other hand, people also use the way they see us for comparison purposes. Uniqueness is what makes you unique in the grand scheme of things. Uniqueness stems from the impact that the powerful factors of the environment have on you as a human being and from your biology, more specifically from the structure of your genetic makeup, which is unique in the world, as I will explain later. If uniqueness was to take the shape of a simple equation, it would give something like this: Uniqueness = Biology + Environment. Read more...
Broadly, there are two different characters within everybody: the person you think you are, meaning the way you view yourself, and the person people think you are or the way they view you. The concept of self-identity applies to the first case, while social identity applies to the second. But I don't think either of the two can be used to describe uniqueness because we use the way we see ourselves for comparison purposes. On the other hand, people also use the way they see us for comparison purposes. Uniqueness is what makes you unique in the grand scheme of things. Uniqueness stems from the impact that the powerful factors of the environment have on you as a human being and from your biology, more specifically from the structure of your genetic makeup, which is unique in the world, as I will explain later. If uniqueness was to take the shape of a simple equation, it would give something like this: Uniqueness = Biology + Environment. Read more...
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