Who Am I Without My Memories?

Excellent read SFC Stephen King some of my memories are gone forever, some I store on Facebook. After a deep coma, it was a long hard trip back to somewhat “normal” and add in several TBIs.

"Except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power."

René Descartes

I lift the following from Wikipedia:
"The sociological notion of identity. . . .has to do with a person's self-conception, social presentation, and more generally, the aspects of a person that make them unique, or qualitatively different from others (e.g. cultural identity, gender identity, national identity, online identity, and processes of identity formation). Lately, identity has been conceptualized considering humans’ position within the ecological web of life."

Now for my thoughts. I do not think we can have identity without self-memory. I do not think a person would be a person if that person has no memories. I agree with SFC Stephen King that neither he nor the rest of us would be without his and the rest of us's memories.

The French mathematician and philosopher René Descartes in his Discourse on Method (1637) said his famous line, "I think therefore I am." In addition, the abstract of the paper, "Thinking and Memory," begins, "Memory is the basis of thinking. In the human brain, the emergence of thinking is comprised of nothing more than two types. One is the synthesis of current perception and memory; the other is the reorganization of existing knowledge in memory."

Being facetious, the above makes everything concerning memory and the human being definitely clear, right?