Still talk about what are not my subjects of specialization. But let us try to be guided by the Scriptures in the first place, then by the Knowledge in a broad sense and finally by common sense.

What makes us ourselves? Not what characterizes us, but what the I  is? Which protocol, which rule, in which region of creation does the information that identifies a single individual reside?

Reflection arises from the discourses on the resurrection. In a strictly material sense, resurrection is impossible. Much literature and even cinematography have addressed the topic. The premises are the following:

– to make us what we are would be: personality, memories, tastes, DNA. If it were only bout this, let’s assume that: you had the right technology or that carrying out the operation was a “superior entity” – then it would be enough to clone a person, or to get a body with the same DNA, to program it as a computer with the same memories and to give it the same inclinations and voila … an individual indistinguishable from the original. And not only that, he will also be firmly convinced that he is the original. (Does Blade Runner tell you anything?)

The fact that it cannot be like that is demonstrated by the following observations: homozygotic twins have the same DNA but are two different people; if I lose my memory, I would always be “ME”; if I suffer a trauma and change my personality,  the same; finally, even tastes and inclinations generally change over time. So? How do we place faith in the resurrection? To be sure that whoever is resurrected will be the same person and not another one?

So far I have found a single and incontrovertible guarantee that proves that resurrection is possible (of course God is omnipotent … but let us remember Hebrews 11: 1). And this guarantee is the life of Jesus. Not only his own resurrection, but what perhaps even more … words are missing … wonderful, incomprehensible, unfathomable, is the passage from immense spiritual creature to … embryo!

Yes, an embryo has its DNA, but what else does it have? As alive as he is, he has no mind, no brain, no thoughts. It has no language, it has no body, it is only a cell: DNA, membrane, etc. …! What’s in common, linking a cell and the most powerful of spiritual creatures? Where was the I of Jesus who passed from one state to another, and who certainly was always him?

Evidently, although there is no immortal soul, there must be something invisible that characterizes every single individual. A protocol of a spiritual nature, precisely, which places us on the level of existence, regardless of what state or position we assume within the material space-time … or even the spiritual one, so that both Jesus and the anointed pass from human life to the heavenly one!

And now I come to explain the title. In the Watchtower of March 15, 2006, the following was reported:

“Jehovah God, who has a perfect memory, has no difficulty remembering the life pattern of those who have died. (Isaiah 40:26) Having originated life, Jehovah can easily bring the same person back to life in a new body. (Psalm 36: 9) “

What is this life pattern?  (In the Italian magazine translated as “life model”) It can be translated, depending on the context, also with drawing, model, diagram, recurring pattern, repetitive structure.

So our “life” (in the sense of self and not of historical experience) has to have a different pattern, a “signature” for each of us; something that is generated once and is active or “ignites” when we receive energy from Jehovah (at conception or at creation or resurrection). We can imagine it graphically, but who knows what it looks like in the eyes of our wise and loving Creator!

And here is how He can give us life as many times as He wants and in whatever form or body He wants, without affecting our “I”!