Post 2

6/30/13
I went back to this website to reread what i had skimmed over the last time I posted.
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/identity-personal/
I am most concerned with the first question Olson addresses: "Who am I?" and his "Accounts of Our Identity Over Time". but on further inspection into his article, I'm not satisfied with his answers, nor have I found one for myself, and so, I'm going to look for a better source than this one today.

Since some of his information is a bit too eccentric for me, I went to the college library website and researched personality. I found an ebook that I prefer due to the author's more scientific approach; I appreciate how Abraham refers back to medicine and biology to prove his point rather than the philosophical approach of Olson. Abraham Myerson's book "The Foundation of Personality" is founded on the connection between the body and the mind and personality.
http://aurarialibrary.worldcat.org/title/foundations-of-personality/oclc/49293769&referer=brief_results

I think researching this topic may be more difficult to follow than I anticipated because of it's philosophical nature and infinite variables that affect it. We know what causes our brains to work and function: through nerve impulses, hormones, etc. We know  that no person is the same because of their life experiences, but the answer as to why we are so complicated (why we act, react, and feel the way we do about ourselves) is more abstract.