# A Self Is Made of Genes Family Culture and Era by Samuel Barondes > “Each of us is also unique, the possessor of a particular selection of gene variants from the collective human genome, and immersed in a particular family, culture, era, and peer group. With inborn tools for adaptation to the circumstances of our personal world we keep building our own ways of being and the sense of who we are.” > **— Samuel Barondes**, *2011 Edge Annual Question, response passage* ## Sources and Context - **Original Edge response:** [Each Of Us Is Ordinary, And Yet One Of A Kind — Samuel Barondes](https://www.edge.org/response-detail/10234) — a verbatim passage from Samuel Barondes's 2011 Annual Question response, expressing the author's position at the time. The linked response supplies its surrounding context. - **Local archival entry:** [[research/Edge 2011 Full Quotation Curation|Edge 2011 Full Quotation Curation]] (EDGE2011-153). ## Related Articles and Collections - **Collection:** [[collections/Edge|Edge]] - **Collection:** [[collections/Consciousness Continuity|Consciousness Continuity]] - **Article:** [[articles/Mind Uploading and AI — The Host is Reusable and the Person is the Delta|Mind Uploading and AI — The Host is Reusable and the Person is the Delta]] - **Article:** [[articles/Who Pays for Your Heaven|Who Pays for Your Heaven]] - **Article:** [[articles/The Organic-Synthetic Brain Atlas|The Organic-Synthetic Brain Atlas]] ## Related Topics - [[wiki/Personal Identity|Personal Identity]] ## Share on Social Media ``` “Each of us is also unique, the possessor of a particular selection of gene variants from the collective human genome, and immersed in a particular family, culture, era, and peer group. With inborn tools for adaptation to the circumstances of our personal world we keep building our own ways of being and the sense of who we are.” — Samuel Barondes, 2011 Edge Annual Question https://bryantmcgill.com/simple-reminders-samuel-barondes-self-made-genes-family-culture ```