>it's all part of our state and our decisions are only truly 'ours' to the extent that this state determines or influences them. I suppose the argument I was t

>it's all part of our state and our decisions are only truly 'ours' to the extent that this state determines or influences them. I suppose the argument I was trying to make was about what is fundamentally 'you' or 'me' and what could be emergent properties. I agree that our decisions rest on prior states. Even if we remember nothing of our past, that has an effect on what and how we choose.