So Many Fish, So Little Line

Identity is choosing, a settling of dispositioning expectations as an: I, Me, Mine. The exploration and discovery process are integral to choosing and my be enjoined consciously.

There are many "testing" opportunities. Each cycle of interaction with the environment affords a knowing of interests and effectiveness as they change.

There Is Only One

Ideally, identity formation is a conformal process informed by discovery, as a consequence of living. Choosing in opportunities or "lessons" may be inevitable, based on the nature of the physical world, or as constructed indoctrinations.

Still the is an expected path, a choice in itself, to the degree of momentum and will incorporate. That path unfolds at the theme of the adjacent possible in its point of perspective and its "stepping from" relation.

Nothing Is Pure

Biological exchange is continuous and contiguous, physics and chemistry apply. Conscious experience and the potential for assimilation into a "self" are not. For information to be assimilated into disopositioning perspective, it must be formed in memory as a cohort and companion of activation and actualization mechanisms.

"Purpose" is an orientation. Actualizing direction is intrinsic in organisms as in survival and reproduction. The human superorganization is founded on this, extending via conceptualization (memes.)

Playing Peek-a-Boo in the Mirror

Humans have a deeply ingrained bias to see themselves more positively endowed in a range of capabilities and capacities, including social norms. Even when tested in conflict, unless there are substantial consequences, self-perceptions may not change. Outside of current bio-social effects reflecting recent environmental changes, this reflexive maintenance of projected identity is an evolutionary plus.

This self-bias may be natures way of implementing a buffer to erratic conformity. It gives more time to "testing" the world and developing adaptive change mechanisms.

Biases such as these, in modern social sciences, are often considered "flaws" if not maladaptive. The potential over-confidence and the ensuing results, particularly in group decision making, are part of this negative aspect.