Devont E Holloway's A Dialogue On Personal Identity

When I think of my childhood and my mother, I immediately think about the kind of learning processes that I have been through. Some of my learning experiences have been very Pavlovian in nature, when I would learn to associate certain sounds and expressions with different events and proceedings. Other times, I have been acutely aware of the reinforcement theories - such as those used by Skinner - which my mother used to use on me to make me learn things. For example, I remember that I would get a rap on the back of my hand for touching the electric cable that would hang from the electric iron. When this happened a few times, I would then never touch the iron since I knew that my mother would hit my hand and I did not want to avoid the pain …show more content…
I think all of these things that my mother did with me ended up in making up the personality and the identity that I have today. I am becoming a good man.
My personal identity is being developed. According to Devont’e Holloway, devoloping identity can be divided into three areas, the body, the memory and the soul. Devont’e Holloway’s “A Dialogue on Personal Identity and Immortality” discusses these aspects of personal identity and these three parts of the 'self'. I feel that I am also in touch with these realities of my own identity. I know that the body that I have is the same one that I have always possessed. It has changed considerable since I was born but it is still the same body. I remember looking at myself when I was a little child and wondering how long would be till I can be tall enough to look in the mirror without having to stand up on a stool and how I would look when I grow up. Now that I am grown up and I look at myself in the mirror, I wonder exactly how I must have looked to …show more content…
Mom would send me to my room to think about what I had done and the choices that I