Personal identity: between subjectivity and objectivity

The problem of personal identity in contemporary anxiety and debates caused by the influence of the scientific building on human nature is considered. The question is analyzed: can the rapidly accumulating scientific knowledge about the brain and the ability to manipulate biological phenomena of human nature, which affects our sense of self. The presented analysis is based on the findings of Paul Ricoeur's "narrative identity" and the "convergence hypothesis" of the financial inspector. The problem of identity of the result from the position of the external growth of the first and third persons. If the growth of the first person is associated with the qualitative chemical experience of the reflection of human light (phenomenological experience of the "I"), then the growth of the third person involves the use of naturalistic methods for describing the illumination of the "I". Which raises the question of the compatibility of "subjectivity" based on free will and personal experience of self-perception, with the "objectivity" of human light, which is recorded through a naturalistic description of the physical aspect of the "I", which is an impersonal determination of causes and effects within which a person is only a "thing among things". The conclusion is formed that reductionism does not allow to explicate, and thus properly understand, the dynamic, narrative, active, heterogeneous and dialectical (essentially conflictual) nature of personality, which forms the requirements for the construction of a holistic theory of the identity of the "I". It is argued that ensuring the preservation of individual identity provides three continuities: embodied existence, psychological connectedness and cultural continuity. As a "sketch" on the way to the formation of a holistic model of the "I", a representation of individual identity through a dialectical spiral is presented.

personality, narrative identity, convergence, holism, first person perspective, third person perspective, reductionism, phenomenological experience, embodiment, subjectivity