Andrew's Institute

Nicolas Alviarez

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Composition #1
Review from Lessons 2 through 4
What are you?

Do you know what are you? Or at least what are you made of? The simple
answer: cells. But what are cells exactly?

If we look at our body, we will see that it’s made of trillions of cells, at the
same time, when see a cell through a microscope, we will notice a bunch of
proteins, carbohydrates and other kinds of molecules that are bound
together and interact with themselves. For a cell to exist it has to contain
those molecules between a specialized membranes and perform some kind
of task. All these molecules are not alive, but somehow, a cell is still a living
thing. It has no will, no consciousness, no purpose, it just is.

Together, our cells form "huge "structures with jobs like: gather nutrients, preparing food, transporting
stuff around our body and gathering information from the outside. These structures combine together
in a pretty tight package call your body.

If you extract cells from your body and put them in the right environment, they will continue to stay
alive for a while. So your cells can exist without you, but you cannot live without them, although millions
of cells from your body die every-day as part of their regular cycle. So then, what are you?

Some philosophers and thinkers believe that our mind is the only "thing"
worth recognizing as ourselves. But what is exactly our mind? The
sensations you "feel" while those little not-dead individuals interact with
one another inside your head? No one has come up with the answer yet.

In the meantime, we could find comfort knowing that we are made of from
a collection of little things that are alive, which at the same time are made
of millions of other little things that are not. But one thing we can say for
sure is: you are you, and I'm me.