"To be resurrected, to be the same person you were, you must have your memory perfectly fresh and present; because it is the memory that constitutes your identity. If your memory is lost, how will you be the same man ?" — VoltaireMaybe Voltaire also looked at himself in the mirror and asked himself the same things I ask myself every day. Who am I and who will I become? Am I the same as I was ten years ago? Some philosophers might ask, “Am I the same person who continues to exist over time, despite changes in my body? How can we know that we are today the people we were last week?” These types of questions may seem superficial on the surface but, deep down, they are the basis of self-perception. Philosopher David Hume would argue that it is the psychological mind or memory. It is the mind, rather than the body, that creates our personal identity. Hume believed that “the identity of persons and objects are two sides of the same coin”. In other words, objects and humans were the same yesterday or ten years ago that we are today. Even though we may have changed in many different ways over time, the same self or object is still as present today as it was then. While I agree with these beliefs, I just have to stand by one statement that I learned during this course. The self, apparently, is nothing other than your soul or inner you. Person, is who your “self” has been, who you are now and in the future. In other words, I believe that self-perception is more of an internal mindset, while the person is the body or exterior in which the self lives. Which leads me to agree with Hume's belief that we are the same self we have always been. , but the person we are becoming is quite busy dealing with a lot of different changes. An object...... middle of paper ......d inside and we agreed with each other that the soul remained the same; just like the ship that entered the port and was renovated, they always look like a brand new penny but the same soul has always remained inside the outside. How do I know I'm the same person I was ten years ago? I know I am, because I was born in this body that has gone through many changes and life-changing events, but the same me exists within this body and my 'self' will remain with this body even after it expires. I still am and will always be the same. Works Cited Hume, David. “The Self”. . Feinberg ed. Belmont: Wadsworth, 1993, pp. 324-326Waldow, A. (2010). Identity of people and objects: why Hume considered them both as two sides of the same coin. Scottish Journal of Philosophy, 8(2), 147-167. doi:10.3366/jsp.2010.0004