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<blockquote data-quote="GGWP" data-source="post: 42524" data-attributes="member: 93">The ship of Theseus dilemma of the biological body only applies to the structural proteins. The main alteration to the self is aging which is your body trying to replicate increasingly damaged genomic templates. There are certain underlying patterns that remain stable through life, enough to constitute a solid identity. Nuclear somatic DNA (what is usually considered when one talks about &#039;genes&#039;) remains constant enough throughout life (beleaguered by cancer/mutation), but generally speaking your body is rebuilt according to the same&nbsp; template. Core brain patterns such as the Default Mode Network, Limbic System and Self-reference networks remain stable. Personality remains remarkably stable across a lifetime, as do attachment style and beliefs about the world. You can think of new information rebuffing the personality core, which is fundamentally evolutionary strategy. Ergo your &#039;self&#039; is a pattern localized in your body, replicated with relative stability in your vessel until death, so it&#039;s not accurate to say that you are always changing on a fundamental level. It&#039;s more accurate to suggest that new information fortifies a pre-eminent self that is &#039;dressed up&#039; with new beliefs appropriate for the current environment, as per plasticity.The materialist perspective at least posits that you are a coalition of micro-organisms that have engaged in a symbiotic treaty. This &#039;United Nations&#039; of your body presents a corpus to your mind, adopting a survival strategy that complements the physical features attributed to you through genetics.Religion however is certainly a force for good. I always say that religion is physiological rather than ideological temperament because it can &#039;buffer&#039; social defeat through belief in higher power, this has been demonstrated quite frequently in studies where religion boosts parietal, prefrontal, limbic and neuroplastic systems. Beliving in (really believing, understanding and digesting religious message as fundamental—vipassanā) can actualize brain changes, so it is truth! Believe hard enough in Buddhist teachings and you might just reach enlightenment.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="GGWP, post: 42524, member: 93"] The ship of Theseus dilemma of the biological body only applies to the structural proteins. The main alteration to the self is aging which is your body trying to replicate increasingly damaged genomic templates. There are certain underlying patterns that remain stable through life, enough to constitute a solid identity. Nuclear somatic DNA (what is usually considered when one talks about 'genes') remains constant enough throughout life (beleaguered by cancer/mutation), but generally speaking your body is rebuilt according to the same template. Core brain patterns such as the Default Mode Network, Limbic System and Self-reference networks remain stable. Personality remains remarkably stable across a lifetime, as do attachment style and beliefs about the world. You can think of new information rebuffing the personality core, which is fundamentally evolutionary strategy. Ergo your 'self' is a pattern localized in your body, replicated with relative stability in your vessel until death, so it's not accurate to say that you are always changing on a fundamental level. It's more accurate to suggest that new information fortifies a pre-eminent self that is 'dressed up' with new beliefs appropriate for the current environment, as per plasticity. The materialist perspective at least posits that you are a coalition of micro-organisms that have engaged in a symbiotic treaty. This 'United Nations' of your body presents a corpus to your mind, adopting a survival strategy that complements the physical features attributed to you through genetics. Religion however is certainly a force for good. I always say that religion is physiological rather than ideological temperament because it can 'buffer' social defeat through belief in higher power, this has been demonstrated quite frequently in studies where religion boosts parietal, prefrontal, limbic and neuroplastic systems. Beliving in (really believing, understanding and digesting religious message as fundamental—vipassanā) can actualize brain changes, so it is truth! Believe hard enough in Buddhist teachings and you might just reach enlightenment. [/QUOTE]

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