Sentence examples for mental identity from inspiring English sources

Science The Gene: An Intimate History by Siddhartha Mukherjee (Bodley Head) Do our genes determine our physical and mental identity?

Yet Mukherjee is right to nudge us away from any simplistic notion that our genes determine our physical and mental identity.

When considerations such as these are taken into account, the suppositions that mental differences do not turn on functional ones, and that functional identity might not entail mental identity, seem much less secure.

In a world of video games, Netflix, 3D movies, fantasy football and more, I pity someone who can keep track of the Houses of Westeros but can't expand their vision enough to contemplate what it might be like to have one's physical body and mental identity at odds with each other.

Spinoza's parallelism, though, means that an alternative, less substantial account of how we individuate the human body will capture mental identity in the same net.

Also debates on organ donors, mental health, identity cards and Iraq.

Some people believe that the only "cure" for being transgender is to correct the physical appearance (with surgery and/or hormones) to match the mental gender identity.

Proponents are content to analyze psychological states at a coarse-grained level, in which only the loosest input-output similarities across species are sufficient for mental kind identities.

Perhaps he saw it too young, perhaps he saw it at exactly the right time, when he was looking for answers to questions about mental health and identity.

It seems as though there are certain tacitly agreed-up topics on which the boundaries of representation can be pushed - sexuality, gender identity, mental illness, for example - but others which authors are much more reluctant to address.

It has been suggested that mental illness threatens identity and sense of self when one's personal story is displaced by dominant illness narratives focussing on deficit and dysfunction.