The Potential of Non-Identity Potential

I see my view as being in the Lockean tradition. The view that I hold implies that there are actually two distinct entities sitting in the chair that I'm sitting in at the moment. There's a living human organism and there's me. If you want to ask, well, what am I? I think I'm not a soul or an immaterial substance or something like that. I am actually a part of my organism. And it's on the basis of that metaphysical view that I believe that we come into existence around about the middle of pregnancy or a little after the middle ofregnancy. We come into existence then as conscious beings, but we have that potential before the consciousness emerges.