Originally Posted by PaleRider

Clearly, you didn't understand the original question. Here, let me ask it again.

Can you be made into something less than you actually are or more than you actually are, or into an entirely different thing than you actually are via the application of a philosophical concept?

following my premise of the mind/body/soul concept, yes. once the soul is disconnected from the body the mind is either partially inactive or no longer there. thus a part of the person is lost.


And you define no one else but yourself wolf. Now that we have determined that we define no one but ourselves (and we can't do a good job of that) do you believe that you can change the reality of what someone or something else is by applying a philosophical concept?

Keep in mind that you just said that the only person you can define is yourself.