I Think I Know Where and Who I Am, but Where and Who Are You?

Our increasingly illusory sense of place and identity

Photo by Joshua Rawson-Harris on Unsplash

Each of us humans is an animal, situated in space and time and operating according to increasingly well understood mechanisms of physics, chemistry, and biology. Despite dreams of bodiless existence, it’s hard to deny that basic fact. We are born, we grow, we age, and ultimately we die, and along the way…