Personal Narrative: The Essential Properties That Make Who I Am

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Based on Miller, what essential properties that make who I am is essentially connected to my soul. I can continue to exist without a body and still be able to contain memories and thoughts even though I lack the physical properties of a body. Even without the physical properties of having a body, I would still be who I am based on how our soul is connected to our being, in which we can still be able maintain memories, thoughts, experiences and even feelings. Thus, even though we have no physical properties, it does not change who we are, because we are not our bodies, we are our souls and our being, which gives us properties of ourselves. Memories, experiences, and thoughts shape who we are and our soul reflects the properties of what makes

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