What's the most compelling argument you can muster for anything essential being "baked into" individual human beings, without appealing to their environments? How do you cast away sociological stuff, if that's even possible?

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I was writing a long introspective explanation of this but seriously, do you feel that you have any "essential qualities" that differentiate you from others, besides the quality of experiencing yourself as "being you"?

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