For more than 2,000 years, humans have been wondering about the how and why of everything and everything that surrounds them. We are trying to understand how and why everything behaves the way it does in our universe. Over time, we have been able to discover answers to our questions and better understand our universe. For example, we know why the sun rises and sets each day, after many years of calculations and studies. However, there are many questions that we cannot simply find the answer to using basic formulas, calculations and experiments. What will happen to me when I die? Is there some sort of non-physical part of me, or essence, that will appeal? Or does it all end? Who am I? Am I, as I think now, my conscience? Is consciousness just an overrated name given to the electrical signals sent between neurons in my brain? Fortunately for me, these questions have been asked, discussed and debated many times before. Many great minds have asked these same questions and thought long and hard about the subject. There is no need to try to reinvent the wheel, so to speak; after all, “I think therefore I am” is a difficult act to follow. Instead, let's pick up where some of the greatest philosophers left off and attempt to gain a better understanding, and perhaps answer the age-old question: Who am I? As mentioned earlier, philosophy is unique compared to most other areas of philosophy. sciences, such as chemistry or geometry. Most often, it is very difficult to prove that a theory or idea is right or wrong. In geometry, we can test whether a formula or theorem is correct or not. On the other hand, in philosophy, how could Socrates have proven that the human soul is, in fact, inext...... middle of paper ......Part II: Dennett, Fortinbras, Hamlet , Hubert and YorickDaniel Dennett write an astonishing and intriguing, but fictional, story about his brain removed from his body and the connections replaced with radio transmitters. This leaves his brain separated from his body, but still connected. In the situation where his body is looking at his own brain, you would think that he would think “There is my body, there, looking at me”. However, in Dennett's story, it's the exact opposite. Dennett goes on to explore several other situations which we will also examine. When he finds himself in the situation of his body standing in front of his brain, he questions who he really is. It's when he first sees himself standing there, looking at his brain, that he wonders if he should really think he was there, being watched by his own body..