2. A person is recognized as an individual person not only by himself but by all his/her friends as well. It cannot be denied that the collection of particles being viewed as a body is not entirely the individual’s own personal viewpoint. The same view is actually shared by all people. It is not possible to view two human bodies as one unless they are actually conjoined twins. We don’t have subjective liberty to choose our viewpoint. There is objectivity in each biological (conceptual) structure acted by biological laws and also in each molecular (conceptual) structure acted by chemical laws.
An objective identity implies it is not any subjectively selected collection of particles. Rather, it is a special collection which together follows another set of non-physics laws (e.g. chemical or biological laws), on top of physics laws (and the set cannot be changed at wish). On the other hand, subjective identity is any wishfully selected set of particles, with each particle following physics laws individually. It is a mystery how each molecule or biological body establish its objective identity?
We will talk a little about quantum mechanics before tackling this problem.
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