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What do you owe the child you used to be?
Your body, your memories and your values have all changed since then. Some of that child's hopes are still waiting on you.
Your answer
A little context
Clearing out a drawer at your parents' house, you find a list in your own nine-year-old handwriting: things you will do when you grow up. Learn to fly a plane. Never be boring. Some of it makes you laugh. One line doesn't, and you catch yourself wondering whether that child gets a say in the life you've made since.
Nearby questions
- The bundle that calls itself ILook for the part of you that watches your thoughts. If you cannot catch it, was it ever there?
- What makes you you?A perfect copy of you could wake up tomorrow with your memories, your habits and your love for your people, certain that it is you.
- Would you want to remember everything?Forgetting can feel like a loss of truth or a condition of becoming someone new.
- What flaw would you refuse to have fixed?What looks like damage from the outside may be carrying part of a person's identity.
- The apology you never madeIf an AI copy of you apologized for something you never said, would you stand by it?
