Why are you YOU and not somebody else?

@blackarcher256 You were never baffled by that?

I wonder why PleasurePunch posed the question.

@sree251 No, not in the least. We are self aware from birth. So to paraphrase the philosopher DeCarte, “I think, therefore I am”. My musings have always been about how much of my make-up is genetic versus environmental. Some of that was obvious. I look like my dad, and have exactly the same stature and body type. But is my aptitude for math..instinctive understanding of how to build things…learned or somehow genetically inherited from my mom who was a teacher, my dad who was an engineer….or is it simply that I observed and absorbed what they taught me or observed.