No, I did not mean that, what I mean is that what makes me what I am, that is, my essence, is myself, nothing external. Nothing external determines who I am, even when I was created or when I am influenced by others.

It's like the question, what makes a stone a stone? And what makes it what it is, it's not the people who have moved it from one place to another, or whatever it is that created it, what makes it what it is, it's its composing elements. The material from which it is made. Because if the material were another, it would not be a stone but something else, and without that material, it would not exist.