If genes equal identity, then a person carrying someone else's DNA has no distinct self.
Instead of liking things like opera because that's what people of your class are supposed to like, the omnivore likes what he likes because it is an expression of a distinct self.
These memories become aggregated into a distinct self (or self-representation).
And she has been, playing her freshman season with a distinct self-possession.
Mine is a genetically robust guilt, drawn from two totally distinct self-flagellating ethnicities.
Lamm, C., Bukowski, H. & Silani, G. From shared to distinct self-other representations in empathy: evidence from neurotypical function and socio-cognitive disorders.
A distinct, self-hypnotized voice fills each room, describing its environment as a limbo where life is frozen, even as it drifts into nothingness.
Note: Highly variable; subspecies difficult because of environmental modification of character states, genetic mixing among polyploids, and geographic overlap of distinct, self-pollinated forms.
These TiO2-coated cotton fabrics possessed distinct self-cleaning properties, such as bactericidal activity and photocatalytic decomposition of dyes.
But Tolstoy is at once a preacherly artist and an artistic preacher, and it is as hard to divide him into two distinct selves as it is to divide DH Lawrence into sermonising high priest and storytelling layman.
Committed at considerable sacrifice to their own distinct, self-regulating society with a demanding ethical code, officers generally regarded civilians as sloppy, selfish, deceitful and hypocritical in their manic pursuit of money.
