Sentence examples for am identical from inspiring English sources
adjective
Bearing full likeness by having precisely the same set of characteristics; indistinguishable.
Consciousness and understanding are features of persons, so it appears that Searle accepts a metaphysics in which I, my conscious self, am identical with my brain a form of mind-brain identity theory.
If I am "identical" to someone else, is that clone me, a simulacrum of me, or someone else altogether?
The answer given by most theorists, following Locke, is that an action is my own just in case I am identical to the person who performed it.
Since the two similarity relations in question are distinct the first modal statement may be true and the second false even if I am identical with the sum of stages in question.
If we do so, though, we are insisting that the relations that matter in the having of a valuable future are definitely psychological, in which case, even if I am identical with some past fetus (qua organism or animal), that is irrelevant: what matters in the having of a valuable future does not obtain between us, so while a fetus has a future, it really does not have a future like ours.
