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What is a person?

It is a practical question. Sometimes we need to have or choose a hard answer to make a decision. It inevitably isn't going to be solved formally.

Any more than what is the dividing line between a chair and not-chair. Many patterns we encounter have fuzzy non-formal edges.

Perfect consensus is impossible, but any consensus is valuable. So we invent and argue about the "best" way to "understand" these things.

These arguments are partly objective, partly subjective, partly emergent, and partly just farmed out to favorite "authorities" or social pressure. But important and unavoidable.

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At the highest level, even how we percieve reality is important. It impacts our values, our motivations, our ethics, how we cope with events, etc. Trickling down to every day choices.

"What is real?" ends up being an important question, no matter how lacking in formal rigor the answers we each have are.




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