A hurricane is an impermanent, ever-changing phenomenon arising out of a particular set of interacting conditions—air pressure, ground temperature, humidity, wind, and so on. The same applies to us: we aren’t self-contained units either. Like weather patterns, we are also an impermanent, ever-changing phenomenon arising out of a particular set of interacting conditions. Without food, water, air, and shelter, we’d be dead. Without our genes, family, friends, social history, and culture, we wouldn’t act or feel as we do.
