Are you the sum of your experience?

Question: Are you the sum of your experience!?
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Yes!. My past makes me meWww@QuestionHome@Com

Jim the Fee, here

Your concept of "experience" appears to be infinite and that may cloud your approach to this question!.
You can "read" about someone having experienced an event!. But that is not the totality of that experience - you would have to have experienced the event and in so doing you might have "seen" things differently!. Perception does that to events in the experiential field!. So now you have two
"experiences" of the relatively same event and that is the sum of that one experience!. But lets drop down to you subconsious mind for the moment!. Many behaviorial psychologists will tell you that your dreams are the mechanism which allows you to further your "awaking" experience and this adds another link to your "sum"
Then, when you get much older, you beginning to recapture
earlier experiences and will analyze them from your current
position and come up with another dimension of the experience!. When, finally, you are on your "death bed"
and ready to expire - you can say aloud or to yourself
That is the "sum of my experience": BUT, what if you choose
to "go around again" in another life!!?!!? Ah, there's the "rub"
as Will Shakespeare said though his character Hamlet!.

Cheers,

Jim the FeeWww@QuestionHome@Com

I think Andy is getting too obsessed with Maths!. I heard it can be deadly!. :D

No!. I'm much more!. I'm a sum of not only my experience, but my intuitions, my changing colours, my political orientation, my poetry, my loved ones, my homour, my ambitions and my sensitiveness!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

I can see where opinion is divided!. No I am the sum of my multiple moods and personalities!. The experience thing is not the derivative or even a factor primely, just added on as a bonus!.!.!.!.equally!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

My past is my experience and its not discreet, rather its continuous and continuous values are not summed they are integerated!

present
[(∫(experience) dt )/wisdom ] * knowledge + (future goals) =me
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There's much more to life than a simple sum!.!.!.!.isn't it!?Www@QuestionHome@Com

no!. all my experiences have been choices which have led me to the choice in this moment!. They are not me!. I was a player, or a witness or a presence in each but they were only choices made consciously or unconsciously!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

Probably not!. According to eminent cognitive scientist Stephen Pinker, in his excellent book, "The Blank Slate," we are the result of complex interactions between the environment and our genetic make-up!.

RainchildWww@QuestionHome@Com

Not totally!. Changed my mind!. Yes, we are a sum total of all we experience at that moment!. It is after the experience that we lose momentum!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

Yes
What could change how you think besides your experiences

If you don't want to feel like your life all comes down to twhat happens around you remember you can change what it is you experienceWww@QuestionHome@Com

It is most certainly a largest part of the equation!.!.!.!.but a few ideas and character traits I believe we inherit or collect from others and their experiences!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

Yes, I never thought of it tat way!. Although I think a bit of your personality and tendencies come from your genetics and background!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

i am the sum of all the experiences my environment can offer as long as i can drow a question mark in my mindWww@QuestionHome@Com

I am the sum of some of my experiences!. You are the Dim Sum of my heart!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

I would be the unfinished product!.!.!.!.!.!.!.!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

I am the sum of many factors!. My experience is only one of them!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

I am the sum of my bank account!. Everyone is!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

Yes, very much so!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

no!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

Yes!.!.!.!.your health,face, eyes etcWww@QuestionHome@Com

mine and hisWww@QuestionHome@Com