Some philosophy student was hanging out with me and my friends and I heard this question. Now it's hurting my god damn head and I have to study for a Calc III exam...-blam!-! So it went like this:
[quote]Why am I me and not you? [/quote]
And I said: chance, maybe a God(s), complex chemistry...no -blam!-ing clue
[quote]"[Insert rambling about Jesus and our Lord and Savior here]"[/quote]
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[quote]just kidding[/quote]
And then the subject matter changed, and then we got lunch, Earth continued on it's elliptical orbit around the Sun, etc.
But then I thought about it..."why am I me and not you?". Why are we perceiving the world around us through the pair of eyes and ears through the body in which you are in [i]right now[/i] and not through let's say the person sitting behind you? Or why am I perceiving this life through a Human in the first place? Why not a lion, or some other alien on another planet? Why am I living in this time frame, in this century and not during the Roman Empire? Bloody hell...I think I'm rambling now...blah blah blah philosophy...
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1 ReplyYou are you and not me because I am me and you are you. The distinction exists because it is impossible for it not to when individuals are involved. Why aren't you someone else? Because you are you, and whether or not you were someone else, you would still be you and not someone else, since "you" are whoever you are. You are you because you are you. You are the way you are because you were born and have grown the way you have. If that had been different, you would still be you, just different from the you you are now. A=A.