A framework for personal identity location: The structural foundation of values

Abstract

Philosophers and psychologists now can join hands with neuroanatomists to solve the vexing problem of personal identity. Personal identity can be located in a person, described specifically, is stable, and is deeply structured (genetically and even mathematically). Current psychological methods lack sufficient specificity and material validation. The ethos-ethics-morality triad is shaped according to identity integrity, along with its internalization (virtue), resulting in a life theme that feeds behavior norms to the person. A person knowing these things can better manage her/his conflicts in individual and social environments. The Voris method is a paradigm identity probe. The train of development of identity is: ontology-epistemology, fundamental law and singularity, quantum-cosmological context (number and spacetime), order/arrangement, math/logic, geometry, atomic structure, transition from dynamism, molecule (valence-applying Maxwell's geometry), DNA, genetics (created by DNA), and neural substrates. Psychological probing and self-reports can be validated by neurocorrelates (e.g.: NIMH, Human Brain Project, and others). Multidimensional Turing tests contribute to validation but, of course, are not definitive, as in challenges by artificial intelligence (AI). Judgement depends upon our knowing what mentation (as in consciousness) is, a goal yet to be achieved. Material (physical) aspects can be reduced to mathematical ones, there possibly and ultimately being no distinction. Such a course can lead to a more precise way of describing and explaining the effects (behavior) of the physical, as in the Voris identity location method and management.

Keywords: Personal Identity, Neurogeometry, Voris Method, Identity and Order, Philosophy and Neuroscience, Values Clarification, Virtue ethics, Philosophy and Psychology, Piagetian Structuralism, Arithmetics of Ethics, Mathematical Foundations of Behavior, Neuroscience of Ethics, Personal Identity, Personality Tests, Geometry of Mind, Neurocorrelates of Behavior, Identity Probe, Philosophy of Identity, Life Themes