I’m puzzled.
Sometime during grade school, I forget which teacher, but one of them liked to emphasize the point that each of us is actually three separate individuals at once.
We are:
…what we are.
…what we think we are.
…what others think we are.
Maybe “were” is a more accurate term. We are who we “were“, etc.
If we can be three people at once, what were we before that..?
Hm…
What is are..?
As the bellicose butterfly in Alice In Wonderland asks: “Who are you..?”
If you’re interested, please let me suggest Charles Murray’s, “Human Diversity: The Biology of Gender, Race, and Class.” He brings together all the latest advances in understanding of how patterns of human behavior are linked to genetics, as seen from DNA-sequencing studies.
Thwarticus 