Abstract
A Multidisciplinary Approach to Exact Personal Identity Location
Author(s): Jeremy Horne*Successfully locating one’s identity requires a multidisciplinary approach. This article describes how neuropsychologists, mathematicians, geneticists, and philosophers join hands in solving the vexing problem of personal identity location. Current personality and values clarification assessments are inadequate for doing this, as they are oriented to descriptions of behaviour, are not individualized, are not validated by what people do (instead of what they think), and do not have physical correlates. The Voris method exemplifies the individualized evaluation of a person’s life theme that exhibits the activities and preferences generated by their identity. Yet, descriptive terms are vague (not quantified and repeatable). Identity, in this manner, is mentation, not a physical entity. The mental (abstract) exists because of the physical (material) and conversely. Hence, completely validating a person’s identity is with neurocorrelation (mapping, the neural structures reducible to molecular structures describable by techniques like Valence Shell Electron Pair Repulsion (VSPER) theory). In this manner, neurogeometry emerges, serving as a method to construct a scaffold on which entities (hydrocarbon and non-hydrocarbon-based) can "house" mentation. Such has implications for the confluence of Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) residing in qubit bio-supercomputers, not the least of which would be replicating identities.