Self
I believe there is a Self which encapsulates multiple traits of a person. There is also a True Self and Believed Self. A True Self would be the mathematically true nature of a person; in an ideal world, we would be able to view the ratio of times someone was "honest" or "dishonest" to prove which way they lean. However, we can't, and there's too many variable to account for. For example, one could argue that someone who tells a lot of small white lies but never on serious matters might be more honest than a blunt person who is very willing to lie when it helps them. There is also no such thing as black or white qualities; we can only lean in certain directions because even the most honest person would lie given certain circumstances.
The Believed Self is a combination of our own standards (like in the argumentative example above), what we can understand or percieve (a Believed Self of someone you don't see often would be more faux than say a sibling you live with), and our biases. It's impossible to truly know oneself or someone else, so every Self we percieve is a Believed Self.
The only exception to this are biological qualities of a person like their blood type, age, etc. These are the closes to True Self we will ever see. This just further demonstrates that for as much as we see ourselves as "above" our biology as conscious beings, we are always on our kness to it.
Selves have multiple groups of qualities, and they are each interconnected.
- Biological - already explained above. This does include your birth date, birth parents, chronic conditions, and genetic and phenological traits among other things.
- Perceptual - self explanatory. Hair colour, tattoos, scent, etc.
- De Jurs - the legal stuff like your government name, nationality and legally recognised ethnicity or gender. Licenses or academic transcripts fall here
- Soft - your morals, ethics, political beliefs, etc. These are "soft" because they are fluid and ever-maturing and more Thought than Hard Biology. Experience in a trade or hobby falls here
- Hard - more tied to your biology. This would be sexuality, opinions on food or music, etc. Most preferences fall here.
- Experiential - your memories, essentially. This also includes things you don't consciously remember and how you feel about the experiences in retrospect.
- External - how others percieve you affects you
- Internal - how you percieve yourself affects you